Marc Gotlieb is the Class of 1955 Professor of Art at Williams College and director of the Williams College / Clark Art Institute graduate program in the history of art. He is the author of The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting.
"The Deaths of Henri Regnault is a joy to read. Gotlieb portrays
Regnault as a rambunctious rebel who sought out the sublime, an
artist who escaped the outmoded requirements and inimitable canons
of the French academy. At the same time, we learn that Regnault was
concerned with some of the same fundamental pictorial problems as
his modernist contemporaries. This book shows Regnault to be a
critically significant artist, important for advancing the study of
nineteenth-century art beyond the conventional academic-modernist
divide."--Martha Ward, coauthor of Looking and Listening in
Nineteenth-Century France
"The Deaths of Henri Regnault is a terrific achievement--a
brilliant and highly original study not just of the short career of
an ambitious Orientalist painter, but equally of the complex and
fascinating vicissitudes of Regnault's reputation following his
heroic death in the Franco-Prussian War. It's hard to know what to
praise more--Gotlieb's superb analyses of key paintings in the
light of contemporaneous art criticism, his wide-ranging discussion
of the larger context of the Orientalist obsession with light, or
his painstaking and continually surprising excavation of responses
to Regnault's art and death from the 1870s to the
present."--Michael Fried, author of Courbet's Realism
"The Deaths of Henri Regnault stands out, even within a field to
which new work is being contributed all the while. The book
combines scholarship of exceptional thoughtfulness with a
meditation of unprecedented originality on the nature of early
death and historical memory."-- "Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide:
A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture"
"The first English-language book on this mid-nineteenth-century
French painter, The Deaths of Henri Regnault will become an
important reference with its many leads for art historians to
pursue."
-- "CAA Reviews"
Gotlieb skillfully positions Regnault as a central artistic and
cultural figure in France during his short life and after his
death. . .Gotlieb is particularly good at visual analysis of some
paintings, like Execution without Judgment. . .The book's
reproductions are excellent. . .Gotlieb imparts impressive insights
on the end of academic art and the creation of a mythic national
hero."-- "H-Net France"
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