TY - BOOK ID - 77874578 TI - Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871 PY - 2007 SN - 1281959162 9786611959166 0226063429 9780226063423 9780226063287 0226063283 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Art, European KW - Art and society KW - Art and revolutions KW - Realism in art. KW - Realism (Art) KW - Idealism in art KW - Naturalism in art KW - Romanticism in art KW - Revolutions and art KW - Arts and revolutions KW - Politics in art KW - Art KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Realism in art KW - 19th century, art history, transformation, transformational, european, europe, america, american, french commune, civil war, independence, karl marx, charles darwin, civic, upheaval, change, science, technology, realism, walt whitman, abraham lincoln, honore daumie, emile zola, edouard manet, gustave courbet, photography, artists, writers, creativity, literature, poetry, aesthetics, cultural, political, interpretation, revolution, slavery, manifest destiny, impressionism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874578 AB - 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. ER -