Article: Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis.

By Dorothy Johnson, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994; 316 pp., $45.

The iconic powers of Jacques-Louis David's most familiar paintings, the Oath of the Horatli, the Death of Socrates, the Dying Marat and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, have always been keenly felt. But until about 15 years ago, the works of David did not invite the sort of intense scrutiny typically reserved for a Rembrandt or a Picasso. A marked renewal of interest in the artist was heralded in 1980 with monographs by Antoine Schnapper and Anita Brookner, and by Michael Fried's Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, which closed with a stimulating modernist take on ...

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