Art and the French Commune Imagining Paris after War and Revolution |
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Author:
| Boime, Albert |
Series title: | Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-01555-2 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1997 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work 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.
Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work 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.