Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Infinitely Small Things
	Angle of Vision
	“Post-Revolutionary” Time
	Media Revolutions
	Parts and Whole
	Notes
1 Miniature Style, 1789–1815
	Small Fashions
	Miniature Aesthetics
	Precarious Sympathies
	Notes
2 Rupture, Interrupted: Rococo Recursions and Political Futures in Percier and Fontaine’s Napoleon Fan
	Architects in Fashion
	A Rococo Past
	Printing Presents and Propaganda
	Fashion Forward?
	Notes
3 A Draughtsman’s Contract: Court and Country in the Work of Louis Lafitte
	Notes
4 Jean-Baptiste Huet’s Lions and the Look of the Captive in Post-Revolutionary France
	Notes
5 First as Farce, then as Tragedy: Art, Vaudeville, and Modern Painting after the French Revolution
	Notes
6 Monsieur Crouton, The Shop Sign Painter: The Unexceptional Artist in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Print
	Watteau’s Shop Sign and Hogarth’s Shop Sign Painter
	The Changing Status of the Satirical Shop Sign Painter
	The Return of Monsieur Crouton
	Crouton on Stage
	Notes
7 Medium as Museum: Marie-Victoire Jaquotot’s Porcelain Painting and Post-Revolutionary Fantasies of Preservation
	Porcelain Copies and the Restoration Monarchy
	Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, Creator of Inalterable Painting
	The Intimate Museum
	“The Sacrifice of Common Sense”?
	Notes
8 The Cultural Politics of Fashion and the French Revolution of 1830
	“Fashion is dead”
	Fashion in Print as Political Critique
	Satires of Women and Colonialism
	Notes
9 A Storm is Coming: Georges Michel in the Wind
	Political Currents
	Transports
	Atmospheric Biographies
	Dead Men’s Souls
	Notes
Index
Plates