Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Date: 1996. Hardcover. Good+ (Boards and textblock are very lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good+ (DJ is lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.). White cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine; black DJ with illustration and brown and white lettering; xv, 255 pp.; richly illustrated. "By the time of Ernest Meissonier's death in 1891, he was among the most famous painters of the nineteenth century. Delacroix, for instance, had hailed him as the "incontestable master of our epoch" and had felt that Meissonier's posthumous reputation would be greater than his own. But Meissonier's renown quickly vanished, and to modernist critics his oeuvre, composed largely of genre and battle paintings, seemed of little value. This provocative study of emulation contests the modernist critique and discloses a new aspect of Meissonier and French Salon painters in general: many of these artists attempted the ultimately impossible task of remaining loyal to their teachers and other predecessors while at the same time escaping their influence...Using new approaches from art history, literature, and psychoanalysis, The Plight of Emulation offers not only an intellectual biography of an extremely talented artist but also a wide-ranging picture of a fascinating era in European cultural history and a convincing analysis of the final impasse of the French Salon."-- Jacket. 1996. Princeton University Press ISBN ...

ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] Hardcover White cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine; black DJ with illustration and brown and white lettering; xv, 255 pp.; richly illustrated. "By the time of Ernest Meissonier's death in 1891, he was among the most famous painters of the nineteenth century. Delacroix, for instance, had hailed him as the "incontestable master of our epoch" and had felt that Meissonier's posthumous reputation would be greater than his own. But Meissonier's renown quickly vanished, and to modernist critics his oeuvre, composed largely of genre and battle paintings, seemed of little value. This provocative study of emulation contests the modernist critique and discloses a new aspect of Meissonier and French Salon painters in general: many of these artists attempted the ultimately impossible task of remaining loyal to their teachers and other predecessors while at the same time escaping their influence.Using new approaches from art history, literature, and psychoanalysis, The Plight of Emulation offers not only an intellectual biography of an extremely talented artist but also a wide-ranging picture of a fascinating era in European cultural history and a convincing analysis of the final impasse of the French Salon."-- Jacket. Good+ (Boards and textblock are very lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.) Good+ ...

ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton] Hardcover Hardcover. xv, 247pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
[Decatur, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
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Princeton Princeton University Press 1996 Hardcover Very good Hardcover. xv, 247pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton] Hardcover Hardcover. xv, 247pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
[Decatur, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
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ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: Princeton UP] Hardcover ~ 4 coulour illustrations and 73 black and white illustrations. Minor wear to unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: xv, 255pp.24 x 16 x 2cm. illus
[Oxford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]
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Princeton University Press, Date: 1996. Good. Former library book. No dust jacket. Different cover. Edition 1996. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. 1996. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691043744 9780691043746 [FR]

ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton] Hardcover First Edition an about perfect copy in like jacket. the writer looks again at the french salon painters. some think of meissonier as a painter of napoleon .
[Columbia, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0691043744, ISBN13: 9780691043746, [publisher: PRIN] Hardcover
[Torino, Italy] [Publication Year: 1996]

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