This thesis is not a monograph on Gerome. Rather it is an analysis of selected paintings and the themes that occur in them.
My approach has been iconological, as subject-matter was, for Gerome, the most important aspect of painting. But I have also endeavoured to tie a formal analysis of Gerome's art to its content.
Chapter I contains a brief biographical sketch, as most of this information is readily available elsewhere this chapter is quite brief.
Chapter II deals with Gerome's neo-greco painting, both for its own sake and to introduce my thesis--that Gerome's painting is an extension of his role as collector and that the world he creates is an extension of the nineteenth-century French interieur.
Chapter III continues and expands on this argument and deals with Gerome's ethnographic work and attempts to explain his use of a photographic style.
Chapter IV deals with Gerome's serious history paintings and relates them to historiographic discourse in nineteenth-century France.
Chapter V, the conclusion, summarizes my arguments. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/20605 |
| Date | January 1977 |
| Creators | Watson, Donald Scott |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
Page generated in 0.002 seconds