Popular Bohemia : : Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris / / Mary GLUCK.

This book revises dominant historical narratives about modernism from the perspective of a theoretically informed cultural history that spans the period between 1830 and 1914. In doing so, it reconnects the intellectual history of avant-garde art with the cultural history of bohemia and the social h...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Preface --
Contents --
1. The Historical Bohemian and the Discourse of Modernism --
2. The Romantic Bohemian and the Performance of Melodrama --
3. The Flâneur and the Phantasmagoria of the Modern City --
4. The Decadent and the Culture of Hysteria --
5. The Primitivist Artist and the Discourse of Exoticism --
Notes --
Index
Summary:This book revises dominant historical narratives about modernism from the perspective of a theoretically informed cultural history that spans the period between 1830 and 1914. In doing so, it reconnects the intellectual history of avant-garde art with the cultural history of bohemia and the social history of the urban experience to reveal the circumstances in which a truly modernist culture emerged.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674037670
9783110442205
9783110459517
9783110662566
DOI:10.4159/9780674037670
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Mary GLUCK.