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Elizabeth Mansfield's The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield's provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking. -Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France
Elizabeth C. Mansfield is associate professor of art history at New York University. Her book Too Beautiful to Picture, also from Minnesota, received the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2008.
Contents
Preface
1. Romancing Rivalry
2. Growing Up an Artist on the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs
3. The Prix de Rome
4. The Judgment of Paris
5. Painting Women of Virtue and Women of Virtus
6. The Revolution in French Art
7. Down with the Tyrant
8. The Unfinished Masterpiece
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index