{"product_id":"the-art-of-louislopold-boilly-modern-life-in-napoleonic-france-9780300063325","title":"The Art of Louis-Lopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoilly has long been recognized as the most significant painter of everyday life in Napoleonic France  one whose portraits and genre scenes provide delightful illustrations of the period. In this book Susan Siegfried argues that Boillys paintings should be read not just for their documentary detail but also for their wider cultural significancefor the light they shed on social and sexual tensions of the era.  According to Siegfried  Boilly viewed the Revolution not as a political event but as a force that redefined social attitudes and behavior. His paintings of street scenes contained a new middle-class imagery of modern life. Boilly avoided the straightforward narratives and focused composition of contemporary history painting  and there was a deliberate ambiguity in his paintings that reflected his own uneasy position within the middle class. His paintings also reveal his distinctive interest in spectatorship and the act of viewing  and Siegfried contends that his work represents a peculiarly modern politics of spectatorship and involves us in a self-conscious dialogue between picturing and viewing. In fact  says Siegfried  Boillys representation of women and boys as highly eroticized objects raises important issues of gendered viewing. Boilly emerges in this innovative study as an intriguing figure who fashioned new pictorial formulas that appealed to connoisseurs of his era and of ours and whose works illuminate important aspects of life in France after the Revolution.  This beautiful book will accompany an exhibit on Boilly to be held at the Kimbell Art Museum  Fort Worth  Texas  and the National Gallery of Art  Washington. Siegfried is the curator of this exhibition.  Published in association with the Kimball Art Museum  Fort Worth  and the National Gallery of Art  W\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651689275445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300063326","price":80.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300063325.jpg?v=1781837433","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-louislopold-boilly-modern-life-in-napoleonic-france-9780300063325","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}