- Sep 21, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm EDT
- Location: La Maison Française of NYU
- Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019
Assistant Professor, The Cooper Union; author of French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-80: Realist Allegories and the Commemoration of Defeat
Strong Women, Fallen Men: French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-80
French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–80 investigates the role played by the trope of the 'strong woman, fallen man' in re-establishing morale among the French people following the Franco-Prussian War. The study explores how certain French sculptors – including Falguière, Mercié, Barrias, and Rodin – presented this recent history of defeat in commemorative monuments that increasingly dominated public space across France during the final decades of the nineteenth century.
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