Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture
N. Heimann

In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire in the eighteenth century to her ultimate emergence as an image of piety and sanctity in the mid-nineteenth century. Offering the first scholarly art historical and cultural analysis of the origins of the modern Joan of Arc cult, she takes on the challenge of charting, as no previous critic has, why and how the Maid of Orléans has been all things to such a diverse public through the ages, particularly during the rapid shifts in political regimes that came in the wake of the French Revolution. Joan of Arc's image has shown a protean capacity to embody a vast and often contradictory range of qualities, from martial ascendancy to vulnerable piety, from maidenly purity to transgressive androgyny, from the power of the people to the divine right of kings. Heimann makes a persuasive case for this enduringly resonant woman as the only figure in French culture to be warmly embraced simultaneously by republicans, monarchists, feminists, and neo-fascists alike. In its recounting of the iconographic fortunes of this remarkable woman during her transformation from an image of satire to one of sanctity, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855) offers an illustrated, interdisciplinary depiction of the relationship between art and politics that will appeal not only to art historians but also to those working in literature, women's studies, cultural studies, intellectual history, and religious history.'Nora Heimann's wide-ranging scholarship reconstructs both the historical figure of Joan of Arc and the evolution of her persona in works of art, drama, and historical narrative by Voltaire, Schiller, Barante, Michelet, Révoil, Delaroche, Ingres and many others. Scholars in art history, literature, history, and cultural studies will profit from both the rich array of original information and the insights which she offers here.' Beth S. Wright, Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 'Nora Heimann's fascinating study argues surprisingly and convincingly that the pornographic satire on Joan by Voltaire set into motion a series of positive portrayals of Joan by visual artists of opposed, political camps. Heimann builds her detailed studies of individual artworks-paintings, statues, plays, and poetry-into a coherent, interdisciplinary argument, not only about the making of modern France in the image of Joan of Arc, but also about the role played by the French imagination in making the Maid a candidate for canonization centuries after her death.' Ann W. Astell, Professor of English, Purdue University, USA

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Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Socjologia, filozofia
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5085-0
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