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eBook
The Politics of the Provisional
2015
Overview
In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured.
War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political
authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent
monuments to the Revolution's memory were completed. On the
contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France was characterized
by the production and circulation of a range of transitional,
provisional, ephemeral, and half-made images and objects, from
printed paper money, passports, and almanacs to temporary festival
installations and relics of the demolished Bastille. Addressing
this mass of images conventionally ignored in art history, The
Politics of the Provisional contends that they were at the
heart of debates on the nature of political authenticity and
historical memory during the French Revolution. Thinking about
material durability, this book suggests, was one of the key ways in
which revolutionaries conceptualized duration, and it was crucial
to how they imagined the Revolution's transformative role in
history.
The Politics of the Provisional is the first book in
the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI
grant, this book is available on a variety of popular e-book
platforms.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271054186, 0271054182
