{"product_id":"quatremre-de-quincy-david-gilks-9780198745563","title":"Quatrem?re de Quincy: Art and Politics During the French Revolution","description":"Antoine-Chrysosth?me Quatrem?re de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most distinguished writer on art and architecture at the end of the enlightenment. However, as David Gilks shows in \u003cem\u003eQuatrem?re de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, he was never simply an esoteric antiquarian and theoretician; he was also a zealous functionary and skilled publicist whose writings on the arts often served political purposes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuatrem?re de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how Quatrem?re's early writings on art and antiquity formed the foundation for a politics grounded in faith, authority, and hierarchy that favoured gradual social and political evolution over destruction and experimentation. Gilks then traces how Quatrem?re set aside his antiquarian research and became a royalist politician and publicist during the revolutionary decade. Quatrem?re feared that the Revolution would destroy the cosmopolitan republic of letters that had flourished when states across Europe supported the papacy's rediscovery of the past, restoration of taste and, revival of learning. Yet Gilks reveals that Quatrem?re was also a resourceful and an opportunistic political actor who deployed his opponents' language for strategic reasons. Gilks therefore reinterprets Quatrem?re's interventions by situating them in their polemical contexts and treating them as contributions to debates and quarrels, by locating his sources and reconstructing his social and political networks. The resulting study revises our understanding of Quatrem?re's famous reflections on the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, the Panth?on, art plunder, and museums, but it also discovers and sheds light on previously ignored writings. Although the study focuses on the period 1789-1799, it examines the second half of Quatrem?re's life to substantiate his commitment to crown and altar and show how he fought against the Revolution's legacy of godless materialism and calculation that was inimical to the arts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a thoroughly researched and richly detailed contextual study of the most eventful period in Quatrem?re's life, but it also offers an original and unfamiliar history of the French Revolution. Gilks integrates the study of political power with the history of ideas and art history, and provides a window into institutional and legal reforms and debates about cultural patronage and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Gilks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198745567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198745563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.45h x 6.30w x 0.87d","brand":"David Gilks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867251364095,"sku":"9780198745563","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e15ea9b1-9863-41b1-b39c-8952e22ed225.jpg?v=1747454288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/quatremre-de-quincy-david-gilks-9780198745563","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}