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

"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...

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Autor principal: Boime, Albert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • 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
  • Postscript
  • Index