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Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London | |
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Paris: the capital of modern art | |
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New technology | |
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The beginnings of modern art | |
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Realism to Surrealism | |
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Realism | |
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Impressionism | |
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Symbolism | |
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Post-Impressionism | |
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Neo-Impressionism | |
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Synthetism | |
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The Nabis | |
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The Fauves | |
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Expressionism | |
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Cubism | |
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Futurism | |
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Orphism | |
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Vorticism | |
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Suprematism/Constructivism | |
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Neo-Plasticism | |
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Dada | |
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Purism | |
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Surrealism | |
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The '-ism' problem | |
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The Conditions for Modern Art | |
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Urban Capitalism | |
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Paris and the birth of the modern city | |
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Capitalist society | |
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The commodification of art | |
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The modern condition | |
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Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image | |
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The art museum | |
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Temporary exhibitions | |
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Lithography | |
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Photography | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Artist's Response | |
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Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing | |
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The human eye | |
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Transparency and unmediated modernism | |
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Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism | |
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Photography and unmediated modernism | |
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Beyond the oil sketch | |
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Cubism | |
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Image/Modernism and the Graphic Traffic | |
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The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood | |
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Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau: image/modernism outside the avant-garde | |
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Image/modernism outside France | |
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Exhibitions of the avant-garde | |
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Fragmentation, dislocation, and recombination | |
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Iconology | |
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Introduction | |
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Sexuality and the Body | |
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Manet's bodies | |
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Modern art and pornography | |
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The nude and the modernist cycle of life | |
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The bathing nude | |
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The allegorical or non-sexual nude | |
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Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin | |
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The bride stripped bare | |
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Body parts and fragments | |
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Social Class and Class Consciousness | |
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Seurat and A Summer Sunday on the Island of the Grande Jatte (1884) | |
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Class issues in modernist culture | |
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Portraiture | |
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Images of peasantry | |
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The worker and modern art | |
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Anti-Iconography: Art Without 'Subject' | |
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Landscape painting | |
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Text and image | |
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Abstraction | |
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Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Art | |
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National identity | |
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Time and place | |
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Abstract art, spiritualism, and internationalism | |
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Nationalist landscape painting | |
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Afterword: The Private Institutionalization of Modern Art | |
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Notes | |
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List of Illustrations | |
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Bibliographic Essay | |
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Timeline | |
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Index | |