Sensing the Nation's Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Revolution, Constitution, Republic.- Chapter 2. Monument, Portrait, Tableau: Making Sense of and With Jacques Louis David's Tennis Court Oath.- Chapter 3. The Quest for the Decisive Constitutional Moment (DCM).- Chapter 4. Courbet and the Nude Republican Master.- Part II: The Aesthetic Constitution of Office.- Chapter 5. Justice Petrified: The Seat of the Italian Supreme Court between Law, Architecture and Iconography.- Chapter 6. Visual Rhetoric as "a Space-in-between": Semiotic Account of French Official Presidential Photographs.- Part III: Untimely Reflections on the Nation's Law .- Chapter 7. A Hypothesis on the Genealogy of the Motto "In God We Trust" and the Emergence of the Identity of the Church.-Chapter 8. Here and Now: From "Aestheticizing Politics" to "Politicizing Art".- Part IV: Out of Many, One.- Chapter 9. Appreciation or Appropriation? An Indigenous Moment in the American Numismatic Narrative (1999-2009). Chapter 10. Internormative Gastronomies: Law, Nation and Identity.- Part V: Consensus.- Chapter 11. Aesthetic Mediation: Towards Legitimate Power.