Delacroix: New and Expanded Edition
By (Author) Barthlmy Jobert
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd October 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
Individual artists, art monographs
759.4
Paperback
352
Width 286mm, Height 229mm
A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive painters Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic works like The Death of Sardanapalus as well as more classically inspired paintings such as Liberty Leading the People. Over the long span of his career
"[A] unique creative intensity entirely worth revisiting with this latest Delacroix: New and Expanded Edition." * New York Journal of Books *
"No cartoon or multi-level digital painting I have seen has reached this level of dramatic intensity." * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *
Barthlmy Jobert is the head of Fondation Sorbonne Universit and one of the worlds leading experts on Delacroix.