Download or read book Tradition and Desire written by Norman Bryson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-03-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.