Ways to hate Delacroix, and then Matisse
Robert Irwin: French art, 10 June 1999
The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836
by Todd Porterfield.
Princeton, 245 pp., £32.50, March 1999,0 691 05959 4 Show More
by Todd Porterfield.
Princeton, 245 pp., £32.50, March 1999,
“... Boy, has Todd Porterfield got it in for the French! According to The Allure of Empire, French artists and writers in the early 19th century threw themselves eagerly into the service of imperialism. Painters worked hard to prepare the way for the conquest of Algeria (which took place from 1830 onwards) and high art glorified the exploitation of the Third World ... ”
