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The novel map
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ISBN: 9780810166387 0810166380 9780810128668 0810128667 Year: 2013 Publisher: Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University Press

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Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century France reconfigured both the ways literature could represent subjects and the ways subjects related to space. In the first-person works of these authors, maps situate the narrator within the imaginary space of the novel. Yet the time inherent in the text’s narrative unsettles the spatial self drawn by the maps and so creates a novel self, one which is both new and literary. The novel self transcends the rigid confines of a map. In this significant study, Patrick M. Bray charts a new direction in critical theory.

Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871
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ISBN: 1281959162 9786611959166 0226063429 9780226063423 9780226063287 0226063283 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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From the European revolutions of 1848 through the Italian independence movement, the American Civil War, and the French Commune, the era Albert Boime explores in this fourth volume of his epic series was, in a word, transformative. The period, which gave rise to such luminaries as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin, was also characterized by civic upheaval, quantum leaps in science and technology, and the increasing secularization of intellectual pursuits and ordinary life. In a sweeping narrative that adds critical depth to a key epoch in modern art's history, Art in an Age of Civil Struggle shows how this turbulent social environment served as an incubator for the mid-nineteenth century's most important artists and writers. Tracing the various movements of realism through the major metropolitan centers of Europe and America, Boime strikingly evokes the milieus that shaped the lives and works of Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Émile Zola, Honoré Daumier, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the earliest photographers, among countless others. In doing so, he spearheads a powerful new way of reassessing how art emerges from the welter of cultural and political events and the artist's struggle to interpret his surroundings. Boime supports this multifaceted approach with a wealth of illustrations and written sources that demonstrate the intimate links between visual culture and social change. Culminating at the transition to impressionism, Art in an Age of Civil Struggle makes historical sense of a movement that paved the way for avant-garde aesthetics and, more broadly, of how a particular style emerges at a particular moment.


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Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
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ISBN: 9780691241951 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "ideological dealer" and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "independent art" and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "true heirs" of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.

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Art --- Art and design. --- Art criticism. --- Arts --- Criticism --- Design and art --- Design --- Marketing. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Academic art. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Aestheticism. --- Alfred Rethel. --- Alfred Sisley. --- Ambroise Vollard. --- Art Nouveau. --- Art for art's sake. --- Art museum. --- Arts and Crafts movement. --- Auguste Rodin. --- Avant-garde. --- Barbizon school. --- Berlin Secession. --- Berthe Weill. --- Camille Pissarro. --- Central Europe. --- Champfleury. --- Class action. --- Classicism. --- Contemporary art. --- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. --- Decadent movement. --- Der Blaue Reiter. --- Descriptive Catalogue (1809). --- Dreyfus affair. --- Edvard Munch. --- Frantz Jourdain. --- French art. --- Georges Seurat. --- Georges de La Tour. --- German Romanticism. --- German art. --- German idealism. --- Gustave Caillebotte. --- Gustave Courbet. --- Hans Makart. --- Harry Graf Kessler. --- Heinrich von Treitschke. --- Henri Fantin-Latour. --- Henri Matisse. --- Henry van de Velde. --- High modernism. --- Impressionism. --- International Style (architecture). --- Italian Renaissance painting. --- J. Alden Weir. --- Japonism. --- Juste milieu. --- L'Histoire. --- La Plume. --- La Revue Blanche. --- Le Figaro. --- Les Baigneuses (Gleizes). --- Louis Comfort Tiffany. --- Maison de l'Art Nouveau. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Maximilien Luce. --- Mercure de France. --- Modern art. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Munich Secession. --- Napoleon III. --- Nazism. --- Neo-impressionism. --- Neoclassical architecture. --- Neoclassicism. --- Orientalism. --- Palais de l'Industrie. --- Paul Delaroche. --- Paul Durand-Ruel. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Pierre-Auguste Renoir. --- Political Liberalism. --- Populism. --- Positioning (marketing). --- Post-Impressionism. --- Postmodernism. --- Renaissance art. --- Rococo. --- Romanticism. --- Salon d'Automne. --- Salon de la Rose + Croix. --- Salon des Cent. --- Siegfried Bing. --- Soziologie. --- The Barque of Dante. --- The Impressionists (BBC drama). --- The Realist. --- Thomas Couture. --- Trade fair. --- Use tax. --- Vienna Secession. --- Vittoria Colonna. --- William-Adolphe Bouguereau. --- École des Beaux-Arts. --- Émile Zola.

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