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LOW ART, POPULAR IMAGERY AND CIVIC COMMITMENT IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Author(s) -
WALCZAK GERRIT
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00540.x
Subject(s) - french revolution , painting , politics , guard (computer science) , art history , context (archaeology) , art , salon , sociology , visual arts , aesthetics , political science , media studies , history , law , programming language , archaeology , computer science
By way of a case study devoted to Jean‐Jacques Hauer (1751–1829), one of the minor figures making their Salon debut in the French Revolution, this essay explores the relations between art and historical events in times of radical transformation. A citizen–artist serving with the National Guard, the painter was a humble practitioner enjoying his greatest success at the height of collective militancy known as the sans‐culotte movement. The French Revolution allowed Hauer to go public, and most of his œuvre is closely tied to its tangled politics. Representations from the death of Marat to the plight of the royal family are examined in the context of shifting discourses, sectionary politics and civic commitment.