DANIEL HARKETT is an associate professor of history of art and visual culture at Rhode Island School of Design. KATIE HORNSTEIN is an assistant professor of art history at Dartmouth College.
"The contributors to the volume are an impressive collection of
well-established scholars and newer voices in the field, giving the
work in its entirety a refreshing energy to complement its
impressive depth and breadth. Singly and collectively, these
articles make a strong case for considering Horace Vernet another
worthy candidate for the title of 'le peintre de la vie moderne',
Baudelaire notwithstanding. Beautifully conceived and generously
illustrated, this is a must-read text for anyone interested in the
politics of art and culture in nineteenth-century France."--
"French Studies"
"Vernet is now experiencing something of a comeback among art
historians, as this excellent volume testifies. A major part of its
success is due to its tripartite organization, which crosses
thresholds . . . between the public image of Vernet, the artist's
attempts to unseat history painting in favor of genre and less
antiquated subject matter, and his creative engagement with modern
visual technologies. This broad approach, involving essays by
well-established specialists as well as early-career researchers,
reveals the complexity of the issues at stake."--
"Nineteenth-Century French Studies"
"Vernet needs - indeed deserves - the wide-ranging reassessment
that Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual
Culture provides."-- "Burlington Magazine"
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