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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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society.
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Table of Contents:
- 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