书名：Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David、Women、and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France / 赫西莉亚的姐妹们：雅克-路易·大卫、女性与法国大革命后民间社会的兴起
定价：540.0
ISBN：9781606067710
作者：Norman Bryson
版次：1
出版时间：2023-07

内容提要：

题 目：Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David、Women、and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France / 赫西莉亚的姐妹们：雅克-路易·大卫、女性与法国大革命后民间社会的兴起

作 者：Norman Bryson

出 版：Getty Research Institute，2023

装 帧：精装，352页

尺 寸：19*26.6 cm

 

 

这本引人入胜的著作融合了政治史、文化史和艺术史，共同描绘了18世纪90年代的法国风貌。

 

1799年，法国艺术家雅克-路易·大卫（1748-1825）展出了他的历史画《萨宾妇女的干预》，画中描绘了古代女英雄赫西莉亚，并在她两侧添加了两位当代女性的肖像——一位是外交部长查尔斯-弗朗索瓦·德拉克罗瓦的女儿亨利埃特·德·韦尔尼纳克，另一位是广受赞誉的社交名媛朱丽叶·雷卡米耶。诺曼·布莱森博采众长，解释了这种画作组合如何揭示了督政府时期的深层本质，这一时期介于残酷且近乎独裁的恐怖统治（1793-1794）和1799年拿破仑上台的政变之间。

 

《赫西莉亚的姐妹们》一书通过展现文学、戏剧、歌剧、道德哲学、政治理论、绘画、流行新闻和时尚等各个文化领域中女性先驱者的非凡涌现，揭示了这些年里文化生活与公民社会是如何重建的。布莱森通过仔细研究大卫在《萨宾妇女的干预》（创作于1796年）和《拿破仑翻越阿尔卑斯山》（创作于1800年）之间的作品，探讨了督政府时期女性文化的繁荣如何对大卫的艺术产生了决定性的影响。本书配有150多幅插图，为读者提供了对这一时期崭新而深刻的见解，令人着迷。

 

Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France.

 

In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of her—Henriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles-Fran?ois Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette Récamier, a well-known and admired socialite. Drawing on many disciplines, Norman Bryson explains how such a combination of paintings could reveal the underlying nature of the Directoire, the period between the vicious and near-dictatorial Reign of Terror (1793–94) and the coup in 1799 that brought Napoleon to power.

 

Hersilia’s Sisters illuminates ways that cultural life and civil society were rebuilt during these years through an extraordinary efflorescence of women pioneers in every cultural domain—literature, the stage, opera, moral philosophy, political theory, painting, popular journalism, and fashion. Through a close examination of David’s work between The Intervention of the Sabines (begun in 1796) and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (begun in 1800), Bryson explores how the flowering of women’s culture under the Directoire became a decisive influence on David’s art. With more than 150 illustrations, this book provides new and brilliant insight into this period that will captivate readers.