| Description |
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
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Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society |
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Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Art and the French commune : imagining Paris after war and revolution / by Albert Boime. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List Of Illustrations Xi -- Acknowledgments Xv -- 1. Introduction 3 -- 2. The Critical Reception 27 -- 3. The Dislocating Impact Of The Commune On The Impressionists 46 -- 4. The Impressionist Agenda 77 -- 5. Mapping The Terrain 114 -- EPILOGUE: GEORGES SEURAT'S Un Dimanche a la Grande fatte AND POST-COMMUNE UTOPIANISM 140 -- Appendix: On Olin Levi Warner'S Draft Of A Speech In Defense Of The French Commune 186 -- Notes 209 -- Postscript 223 -- Index 225 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Art Political aspects France Paris, Art and state France Paris, Impressionism (Art) France Paris, Paris (France) Intellectual life 19th century, Paris (France) History Commune, 1871 |
| Summary |
Boime contends that an organized impressionist movement owed its initiating impulse to its complicity with the state's program. The exuberant street scenes, spaces of leisure and entertainment, sunlit parks and gardens, the entire concourse of movement as filtered through an atmosphere of scintillating light and color constitute an effort to reclaim Paris visually and symbolically for the bourgeoisie |
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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 its socialist ideology. The Commune of 1871 emerged after the Prussian war when the Paris militia chased the central government to Versailles, enabling the working class and its allies to seize control of the capital. Eventually violence engulfed the city as traditional liberals and moderates joined forces with reactionaries to restore Paris to "order" - the bourgeois order. Here Boime examines the rise of Impressionism in relation to the efforts of the reinstated conservative government to "rebuild" Paris, to return it to its Haussmannian appearance and erase all reminders of socialist threat |
| Analysis |
Arts Related to Politics |
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Paris (France) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-224) and index |
| Subject |
Art and state -- France -- Paris.
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Art -- Political aspects -- France -- Paris.
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Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Paris.
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| SUBJECT |
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96002248
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Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098061
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| LC no. |
94005324 |
| ISBN |
0691015554 (paperback) |
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0691029628 (CL : acid-free paper) |
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