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Episode 106: The Art of Power (Patreon)

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2023-09-30 22:46:20
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In Europe at the dawn of the nineteenth century, art and politics were deeply intertwined, sometimes in surprising ways. No one understood this better than Napoleon Bonaparte.

Comments

Rorge Biter

Hey Everett, long time fan. I was just wondering if there’s any chance you could remove the opening blurb about Patreon for those of us already on here. No worries if it’s inconvenient

Anonymous

Even without looking at the paintings your narration was very captivating. I love all episodes, but this is one for the books!

Andrew Verrier

just catching up now—love what you’re doing. this episode alone is worth the Patron fee (and i’ve still got 12 minutes left!) also, saw #Napoleon today, Looking forward to your takes… Happy Holidays!🦃🍻⚜️

Naomi Xu

Great episode! I just listened to it today and then came across this passage in Proust (Volume 7) which touches on the Louvre and the revolutionary-era salons that you mentioned — thought it was a neat coincidence! The passage takes place in 1916 in Paris … “The Louvre and all the other museums were closed, and when one saw at the head of an article in a newspaper the words: "A sensational exhibition," one could be sure that the exhibition in question was not one of paintings but of dresses, of dresses moreover which aimed at reviving "those refined joys of art of which the women of Paris have for too long been deprived." So it was that fashion and pleasure had returned, fashion, in the absence of the arts, apologising for its survival as the arts had done in 1793, in which year the artists exhibiting in the revolutionary Salon proclaimed that, though "stern Republicans might find it strange that we should occupy ourselves with the arts when Europe united in coalition is besieging the soil of liberty," they would be wrong. The same sort of thing was said in 1916 by the dressmakers, who, with the self-conscious pride of artists, affirmed that "to create something new, to get away from banality, to assert an individual character, to prepare for victory, to evolve for the post-war generations a new formula of beauty, such was the ambition that tormented them, the chimera that they pursued, as would be apparent to anyone who cared to visit their salons.””

Gabriel Soares

Fantastic episode. Greetings from Brazil

Ben Richardson

Great episode! I have a tattoo of “The Charging Chasseur” :-)