Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution (Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society)

by Albert Boime (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $58.98

  Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a guilty secret - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology.