Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix
, by Norman Bryson- ISBN: 9780521335621 | 0521335620
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/27/1987
In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.