Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix - Paperback

by Norman Bryson (Author), Michael Sheringham (Editor)

In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.