The Politics Of Vision: Essays On Nineteenth-century Art And Society

by Linda Nochlin

Overview

A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064301879
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/03/1991
Series:	ICON Editions Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1700L (what's this?)

About the Author

Linda Nochlin is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, Williams College, and Hunter College.

Table of Contents

* The Invention of the Avant-Garde: France, 18301880 * Courbet, Oller, and a Sense of Place: The Regional, the Provincial, and the Picturesque in 19th-Century Art * The Imaginary Orient * Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye * Manets Masked Ball at the Opera * Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weavers Crisis in Lyons * Lon Frdric and The Stages of a Workers Life * Degas and the Dreyfus Affair: A Portrait of the Artist as an Anti-Semite * Seurats La Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory