{"product_id":"art-and-the-french-commune-9780691015552","title":"Art and the French Commune","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Henceforth, it will be impossible to treat the question of the origins of Impressionism without making reference to [Boime's] work, whether it be to extend it, amend it, or refute it.\"--Barthelemy Jobert, Revue de l'Art \"Through Boime's distinctive 'vision,' the book mounts an altogether new explanation of Impressionism, one that intentionally differs from the most influential, those of T. J. Clark and Robert Herbert.\"--Hollis Clayson, Apollo Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XI  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XV  1. INTRODUCTION 3  2. THE CRITICAL RECEPTION 27  3. THE DISLOCATING IMPACT OF THE COMMUNE ON THE IMPRESSIONISTS 46  4. THE IMPRESSIONIST AGENDA 77  5. MAPPING THE TERRAIN 114  EPILOGUE: GEORGES SEURAT'S Un Dimanche a la Grande fatte AND POST-COMMUNE UTOPIANISM 140  APPENDIX: ON OLIN LEVI WARNER'S DRAFT OF A SPEECH IN DEFENSE OF THE FRENCH COMMUNE 186  NOTES 209  POSTSCRIPT 223  INDEX 225","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403677049175,"sku":"9780691015552","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-and-the-french-commune-9780691015552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}