Publication : The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century.

MILANO Ronit, The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Leyde, Brill, 2015, 228 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history. The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was in..