"Et la lumiere fut": the meanings of David d'Angers's monument to Gutenberg. (Johann Gensfleich Gutenberg)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 1991| Author: Driskel, Michael Paul | Copyright information

This is the first in-depth study of the social meanings of one of the major civic monuments of nineteenth-century France: Pierre-Jean David d'Angers's homage to Johann Gutenberg, erected at Strasbourg in 1840. How this work is related to the struggles around the issue of freedom of the press and to republican politics during the July Monarchy (1830-48), both in France as a whole and in the city o...

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