The Politics Of Vision: Essays On Nineteenth-century Art And Society

by Nochlin,Linda

• ISBN13: 9780064301879
• ISBN10: 0064301877
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1991-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.

Author Biography

Linda Nochlin is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, Williams College, and Hunter College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
Notes	p. xxiii
The Invention of the Avant-Garde France, 1830-1880	p. 1
Notes	p. 17
Courbet, Oller, and a Sense Of place: the Regional, Theprovincial, and the picturesque In 19th-Century Art	p. 19
Notes	p. 32
The Imaginary Orient	p. 33
Notes	p. 57
Camille pissarro The Unassuming Eye	p. 60
Notes	p. 74
Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera	p. 75
Notes	p. 92
Van Gogh, Renouard, And The Weavers' Crisis in Lyons	p. 95
Léon Frédéric And The Stages of a Worker's Life	p. 120
Notes	p. 139
Degas and the Dreyfus Affair A portrait of the Artist As an Anti-Semite	p. 141
Notes	p. 164
Seurat's La Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory	p. 170
Notes	p. 190
Index	p. 194
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