Material Futures: Reproducing Revolution in P.-L. Debucourt's Almanach National

• Autores: Richard Taws
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 92, Nº 3, 2010, págs. 169-187
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Philibert-Louis Debucourt’s 1790 Almanach national, intended to serve as a frame for a pasted calendar for the subsequent year, is a unique combination of allegory and everyday scene. Dominated by a bas-relief representing the National Assembly, the image presents responses to the French Revolution organized in terms of race, age, and social class and features a singular representation of a female newspaper vendor at work. Debucourt’s image effectively mobilizes print to conceptualize the reproduction of Revolution across temporal and national boundaries, providing a means of thinking about the relation between Revolutionary time and the materiality of the image.