Revelation of modernism : responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting / Albert Boime.
Revelation of modernism : responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting / Albert Boime.
Revelation of modernism : responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting / Albert Boime.
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Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
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N759.05/14
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English
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Physical content
xxiv, 250 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Van Gogh's Starry, Starry Night: After the Apocalypse a Heavenly Utopia -- II. Seurat's La parade de cirque: A Political Allegory of Dystopia -- III. Cezanne's Real and Imagined Estate: A Utopia of One's Own -- IV. Gaugin's D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?: Millenarianism and Ne...
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Publisher
Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Missouri
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, and Gauguin - and how they responded to cultural and spiritual crisis in the avant-garde world. Boime reconsiders familiar masterpieces and draws analogies with literary sources and social, personal, and political strategies to produce revelations that have eluded most a...
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Revelation of modernism : responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting / Albert Boime.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.
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c2008.
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N759.05/14
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74VM8NkM4jwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8NkM4jwd
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9780826217806 (alk. paper) :
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759.05
MMS ID
991000216189702626
