ABSTRACT
Norman Bryson's book Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix, subtitled with a reference (sly? respectful? ironic?) addressed to every art historian who recognizes there the appropriation of another famous work (Walter Friedlaender's From David to Delacroix), carries as its epigraph a verse from Louis Aragon:
No fuller reference is given for this citation, nor is it translated. This was no doubt considered unnecessary.
