The Final Spectacle : : Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867 / / Julia Thoma.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Thoma, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abstract --; Introduction --; I. Military Paintings in 1855 --; II. The Second Empire’s Influence on Military Paintings --; III. Painting the Crimean War --; IV. Yvon’s Bataille de Solférino (1861) and the Decline of the Spectacular Mode --; V. Genre Paintings of Military Subjects --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Image Credits
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110497489; 9783110719567; 9783110605785; 9783110610017; 9783110616859; 9783110610765; 9783110664232
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110497489
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julia Thoma.

The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of life. It recreates the paintings’ art-historical, historical and social context, and considers the explosion of military subjects in their own right rather than as a consequence of war reporting. The paintings’ entertainment value effectively communicated political agendas, catering to the emerging phenomenon of mass spectatorship and giving rise to innovative compositions. The book also looks at the other side of the artistic spectrum, proposing that smaller formats adapted the sentimental techniques of military memoirs to focus on the soldiers’ experiences of warfare and to elicit a critique of war.