Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871

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Introduction
1 Springtime and Winter of the People in France, 1848–1852
2 Radical Realism and Its Offspring
3 Radical Realism Continued
4 The Pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 Revolutions
5 The Macchia and the Risorgimento
6 Cultural Inflections of Slavery and Manifest Destiny in America
7 Biedermeier Culture and the Revolutions of 1848
8 The Second Empire’s Official Realism
9 Edouard Manet: Man About Town
10 The Franco-Prussian War, the French Commune, and the Threshold of Impressionism
Coda: Menzel and the Transition to Empire
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
“A powerful and original successor to the previous volumes in a series that has become indispensable to all those of us who teach or study nineteenth-century art.”
“True to form in his extraordinary series on the social history of modern art, Art in an Age of Civil Struggle extends into the late nineteenth century Albert Boime’s commanding perspective on the dynamics of cultural development within the nascent industrial and capitalist democratic societies of Europe and the United States. Boime’s now-indispensable erudition and scholarship are always accessible and enjoyable, fostering a sense of the reader’s participation in this art historical journey toward explanations of a social and cultural order increasingly familiar to us now in ours. His brilliant achievement as a teacher and writer is to show how, in the end, this history has led to where we are now.”
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