Sahler, Brigitte
Illusion und Verführung: Die plastischen Arbeiten von Jean-Léon Gérôme
After a long period of disregard by modernist art historians, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) is once again one of the much-discussed artists of the 19th century. This monograph offers the first systematic account of his sculptural works, which have hitherto remained largely untouched by this reassessment. The study includes both a genre-historical investigation of the specific mediality of his sculptures and a cultural-scientific exploration of the rapprochement between antiquity and modernity that is evident in the works. In this way, new contexts emerge that reveal the complexity of Gérôme's œuvre.
