Art and the french commune: imagining paris after war and revolution

Auteur :
Boime, Albert
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691015552
Date de publication :
6 févr. 1997
Dimensions :
26,7 x 17,8 cm
Poids :
482 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.