{"product_id":"the-deaths-of-henri-regnault-9780226276045","title":"The Deaths of Henri Regnault","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marc Gotlieb\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843-71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siècle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut short when he died at the age of twenty-seven in the Franco-Prussian War. The story of his glamorous career and patriotic death colored French commemorative culture for nearly forty years--until his memory was swept away by the vast losses of World War I. In \u003ci\u003eThe Deaths of Henri Regnault\u003c\/i\u003e, Marc Gotlieb reintroduces this important artist while offering a new perspective on the ultimate decline of nineteenth-century salon painting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gotlieb traces Regnault's trajectory after he won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome, a fellowship that provided four years of study in Italy. Arriving in Rome, however, Regnault suffered a profound crisis of originality that led him to flee the city in favor of Spain and Morocco. But the crisis also proved productive: from Rome, Madrid, Tangier, and Paris, Regnault enthralled audiences with a bold suite of strange, seductive, and violent Orientalist paintings inspired by his exotic journey--images that, Gotlieb argues, arose precisely from the crisis that had overtaken Regnault and that in key respects was shared by his more avant-garde counterparts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both an in-depth look at Regnault's violent art and a vibrant essay on historical memory, \u003ci\u003eThe Deaths of Henri Regnault\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare a creative legend who helped shape the collective experience of a generation.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969485095063,"sku":"9780226276045","price":7592.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226276045.webp?v=1782922061","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-deaths-of-henri-regnault-9780226276045","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}