Contre Goncourt
Francis Haskell, 18 March 1982
Painting in l8th-Century France
by Philip Conisbee.
Phaidon, 224 pp., £20, October 1981,0 7148 2147 0 Read More
by Philip Conisbee.
Phaidon, 224 pp., £20, October 1981,
Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 281 pp., £27.50, January 1982,0 521 23776 9 Read More
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 281 pp., £27.50, January 1982,
“... do not keep their ears uncomfortably close to the ground. There have been hints, of course – but Philip Conisbee’s book is in fact the first to bring to a wide public the new interpretation of French painting in the 18th century that has been quietly gaining ground behind the scenes. Norman Bryson, in a work which will necessarily be much less ... ”
