Main entry:

Boime, Albert.

Title & Author:

Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871 / Albert Boime.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Description:

xix, 884 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

A social history of modern art ; v. 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 801-862) and index.
Springtime and winter of the people in France, 1848-1852 -- Radical realism and its offspring -- Radical realism continued -- The pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 revolutions -- The Macchia and the Risorgimento -- Cultural inflections of slavery and manifest destiny in America -- Biedermeier culture and the revolutions of 1848 -- The Second Empire's official realism -- Edouard Manet: man about town -- The Franco-Prussian war, the French commune, and the threshold of Impressionism -- Coda: Menzel and the transition to empire.

Summary:

Explores the turbulent social environment of the European revolutions of 1848, the Italian independence movement, the American Civil War, and the French Commune, and the transition from realism to impressionism.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780226063287 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226063283 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, European 19th century.
Art and society Europe History 19th century.
Art and revolutions Europe History 19th century.
Realism in art.
Art européen 19e siècle.
Art et société Europe Histoire 19e siècle.
Art et révolutions Europe Histoire 19e siècle.
Réalisme (Art)
realism (artistic form of expression)
Art and revolutions.
Art and society.
Art, European.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Boime, Albert. Social history of modern art ; v. 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260533
Call No.: BIB 191443
Status: Available