Lela Graybill is Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah, USA.
'The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution is the first to examine the French visual culture of violence from 1791 to c.1830. This book belongs to an important strain of work in the field that seeks to connect developments in academically-sanctioned salon painting to other areas of visual spectacle, ranging from waxworks to public executions, and to situate all of these forms in the context of the sweeping political, social, and technological transformations that marked this watershed period. It will be of interest primarily to art historians and historians of visual culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.' Laura Auricchio, New School, USA