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Book Review of The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851

The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851
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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.