Art and the French Commune : : Imagining Paris after War and Revolution / / Albert Boime.

In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1995
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 162 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE CRITICAL RECEPTION
  • 3. THE DISLOCATING IMPACT OF THE COMMUNE ON THE IMPRESSIONISTS
  • 4. THE IMPRESSIONIST AGENDA
  • 5. MAPPING THE TERRAIN
  • EPILOGUE: GEORGES SEURAT'S Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte AND POST-COMMUNE UTOPIANISM
  • APPENDIX: ON OLIN LEVI WARNER'S DRAFT OF A SPEECH IN DEFENSE OF THE FRENCH COMMUNE
  • NOTES
  • INDEX