{"product_id":"chains-satish-padiyar-9780271029634","title":"Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, \u003ci\u003eLeonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae\u003c\/i\u003e, hangs today in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, \u003ci\u003eChains\u003c\/i\u003e embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to David, \u003ci\u003eChains\u003c\/i\u003e explores the sculptural oeuvre of David's contemporary and rival, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Padiyar argues that, like David's postrevolutionary work, Canova's innovative sculptures embodied a new, distinctively modern type of subjectivity. The book aims to take a fresh view of the status of the male body in the work of these two late neoclassical artists by linking them in novel, sometimes unexpected ways with key figures of the late Enlightenment. In postrevolutionary Europe, philosophical and literary figures such as Immanuel Kant and the Marquis de Sade pushed the language of neoclassicism to its limits. \u003ci\u003eChains\u003c\/i\u003e argues that such innovations produced a new, distinctively sexed, politicized, and aestheticized heroic male body that emerged as an incidental aftereffect of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Satish Padiyar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271029633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271029634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.19h x 9.31w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1150","brand":"Satish Padiyar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447609503999,"sku":"9780271029634","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9b9224d-c43f-434c-9b16-7d25e5b7d36f.jpg?v=1777233835","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chains-satish-padiyar-9780271029634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}