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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: 9780520217447
ISBN-10: 0520217446
Publication Date: 2/17/1999
Pages: 224
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: 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.


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