Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution

by Albert Boime

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691015554

ISBN13:9780691015552

Release Date:January 1997

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.5" x 9.9"

Related Subjects

Art Art History Arts, Music & Photography Design Europe France History History & Criticism History & Surveys Humanities Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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