"Picturing War in France, 1792–1856." Topic

"One question raised by Katie Hornstein's Picturing War in France, 1792–1856 is this: Why are there so few studies on this subject? The transformation of warfare that began in the French Revolution has always been a major topic of scholarship, and no one would dispute the fact that war comprised one of the most prominent and frequently depicted subjects in visual culture during the nineteenth century. And yet, few art historians have found the conjunction of pictures and war in this period worthy of their attention. This book offers the most complete account to date of visual depictions of war in France from the Revolution to the Crimean War, but it is much more than a visual survey of war. It also addresses such questions as how viewers used martial imagery to contemplate and negotiate their relationship to the nation, how new modes of visual culture and new understandings of warfare informed and shaped one another, how war became an image of, and metaphor for, politics, and how representations of war blurred the distinctions between official and unofficial, public and private, and established and emergent forms of visual culture…."
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