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Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. His many books include Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 18121820 and The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge (both Princeton).
""By the time Crow’s book reaches its conclusion, he has demonstrated the power of great works of art: that they can transform the scope of a worldview. . . . Not all decades-long obsessions pay dividends the way that this one does. In Crow’s hands, David’s painting and its legacy crystallise into something truly revelatory.""---Tobias Carroll, The Art Newspaper ""A granular account of the making of a masterpiece and a personal elaboration on its afterlife.""---Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal ""Crow’s sparkling study. . . seeks to ‘reconnect [David’s] painting with the lives of its creator and his subject’. . . . Marat’s spectral presence, Crow suggests, has reinvaded the political scene at key moments of democratic challenge. . . . less as the draftsman of the Terror than as the hero of the disenfranchised people and the oracle of resistance to state violence.""---Colin Jones, Critical Inquiry ""[Crow's] masterly monograph. . . . argues anew for the significance of the ‘charged repositories of experience’ encapsulated in paintings such as David’s. The political struggle of the 1960s, he writes, was ‘nourished […] on the past’ – but what sustains revolution today? Maybe the time has come for Marat to breathe again.""---Kristen Tambling, Apollo Magazine
