The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist’s pictorial practice, the stylistic range over Classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist’s life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further readings in the topic areas.

• Highly interdisciplinary and poly-methodological • Includes translations of all primary and secondary source material, thus providing access for a wide range of readers • Provides full bibliographic references as well as a full biographical chronology and political and cultural chronology

1. Painting thoughts: an introduction to Delacroix Beth S. Wright; 2. Delacroix in his generation Alan B. Spitzer; 3. Delacroix and romanticism James H. Rubin; 4. Eugène Delacroix and popular culture Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer; 5. Origins and colonies: Delacroix’s Algerian Harem Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby; 6. ‘A Science and an Art at Once’: Delacroix’s pictorial theory and practice Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu; 7. Delacroix’s dialogue with the French classical tradition Dorothy Johnson; 8. Delacroix and modern literature Paul Joannides; 9. Delacroix as Essayist: writings on art Michele Hannoosh; 10. Painting/literature: the impact of Delacroix on aesthetic theory, art criticism, and poetics in mid-nineteenth-century France David Scott.

‘An immensly valuable and stimulating resource … fully deserves its title.’ The Art Book

\'These essays will appeal very widely. Specialists will find in them fresh ideas and new material, students, a stimulating initiation both to Delacroix and to more general forces in French culture.\' Modern Language Review