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- Title
Jacques-Louis David’s Adieux: The Micropolitics of Sovereignty at the Bourbon Restoration.
- Authors
Klausen, Jimmy Casas
- Abstract
In 1816, the restored Bourbon regime banished a group of French Revolutionary politicians from French soil. Although Louis XVIII created an exception for France’s premier painter Jacques-Louis David, David contested this exercise of sovereignty by refusing to be the beneficiary of a monarchic decision on the exception. In rewriting exile as exit, David alters the Revolutionary conception of national sovereignty he subscribed to decades earlier and enacts self-sovereignty instead. David’s painting Les Adieux de Télémaque et d’Eucharis (1818) confirms the artist’s self-sovereign affirmation of responsibility, potential undecidability, and autonomous error in defiance of Bourbon unaccountability, decisionism, and infallibility.
- Subjects
DAVID, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825; FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; FRENCH Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802; FRENCH politics &; government, 1789-1799; SOVEREIGNTY; REVOLUTIONS in art
- Publication
Law, Culture & the Humanities, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 2, p278
- ISSN
1743-8721
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1743872112465372