Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Name: Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)
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ISBN: 9780226109510

ISBN-10: 0226109518

ISBN-13: 9780226109510

Edition: 2002

Authors: Hollis Clayson

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Using the visual arts as an interpretive lens, Clayson illuminates the wide range of issues at play during the siege and thereafter, including questions of political and cultural identity, artistic masculinity and femininity.

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 520
Size: 8.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.696
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Paris Under Siege



The War, the Artists, and the History of Art



The Binant Series and the Wartime Everyday



Trapped: The City Transformed



Claustrophobia: La Ville Lumiere Goes Dark



Everyone's a Soldier?



Gender and Allegory in Flux



The Food Crisis



The Artists' War


Introduction: The Horizon of Response



Gustave Courbet Saves the Louvre



Edouard Manet: Restless Modernism



Henri Regnault: Wartime Orientalism



Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere: Sculpting Resistance



Rosa Bonheur: A Manly Animalier Soldiering On



Edgar Degas: Portraiture and Empathy



Commemorating the Siege in the Aftermath of the Paris Commune



La Place de la Concorde in War and Peace



Two Retrospective Concours



Conclusion



Summing Up


Notes


Index