books.google.fr - In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions...http://books.google.fr/books/about/Extremities.html?hl=fr&id=EAIeRI02hbIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareExtremities