{"product_id":"painting-and-the-journal-of-eugene-delacroix-9780691043944","title":"Painting and the Journal of Eugene Delacroix","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Journal of Eugne Delacroix is one of the most important works in the literature of art history: the record of a life at once public and private  it is also one of the richest and most fascinating aesthetic documents of the nineteenth century  as Delacroix reflects throughout on the relations between the arts  especially painting and writing. Indeed  he approaches the question from a unique perspective  that of a painter who wrote extensively and theorized his own writing in the Journal  a painter who had a passion for literature and a powerful literary imagination  a narrative painter whose work is rooted in literature and the literary.  This book is the first to explore the crucial importance of this relation for Delacroixs aesthetic theory and artistic practice. Countering the long critical tradition which sees his writing as the inverse of his painting  it argues that  through his diary and art criticism  he sought to develop a painters writing  proper to painting itself  and that such a writing is closely related to his conception of pictorial art. This approach has significant implications for interpreting the narratives of his public decorations  four of which are analyzed here: the library schemes of the Senate and the Assemble Nationale  the Apollo Gallery in the Louvre  and the Chapel of the Holy Angels at the church of Saint-Sulpice. Delacroixs ideas on the theoretical and practical relations between writing and painting  narrative and the image  are shown to be central not only to his aesthetic  but also to his views on civilization  history  and culture  and on the role of the artist in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44938350657589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691043949","price":265.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691043944.jpg?v=1788287760","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/painting-and-the-journal-of-eugene-delacroix-9780691043944","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}