Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century

by Nord,Philip

• ISBN13: 9780415077156
• ISBN10: 041507715X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

All the favorites are here, including Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne and many others and is nicely illustrated. Impressionists and Politicsis an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. By providing an historical background and context, this book places the Impressionists' roots in wider social and economic transformations and explains its militancy, both aesthetic and political.Impressionists and Politicsis a concise history, from its youthful inception in the 1860s to its final years of recognition and crisis.

Table of Contents

List of plates	ix
Series editors' preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(3)
The origins of the new painting	4	(3)
The end of impressionism	7	(1)
The new painting and radical politics	8	(3)
Under the Empire: the origins of the new painting	11	(25)
The new painting at the Salon	12	(10)
Republican art criticism	22	(5)
Painters and the Republic	27	(9)
The coming of the Republic	36	(33)
1870--1: the terrible year	38	(7)
The politics of the independent exhibition	45	(8)
The painting of republican life	53	(11)
Patonage and policy	64	(5)
The crisis of impressionism	69	(39)
From the Salon to the one-man show	71	(5)
The trials of middle age	76	(6)
Cultural crisis	82	(18)
The Dreyfus affair	100	(8)
Notes	108	(16)
Select bibliography	124	(5)
Index	129