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The absolute bourgeois: artists and politics in France, 1848-1851
The absolute bourgeois artists and politics in France 18481851
Author: T. J Clark
When this book and its companion volume, Image of the People, appeared in 1973, they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about. "This book," said the Times, "is a product of that school of art history whose history is as well read as its art, and whilst it covers only a small area of time and place, Clark'...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500490082
ISBN-10: 0500490082
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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From the cover: "Clark's subject is painting and print-making in the years following the 1848 Revolution in France--"a time," he argues, "when art and politics could not escape each other."

Discusses Millet, Daumier, Delacroix, and Baudelaire. 109 illlustrations, 10 in color.