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 | | French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society, 1865-1900 by Laura L. Meixner ISBN-10: 9780521461030 ISBN-10: 0-521-46103-0 ISBN-13: 9780521461030 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-46103-0 Hardcover 1995-06-30 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book examines public reception of contemporary French painting in post-Civil War American society. Analyzed from class and regional perspectives, popular responses to Realist and Impressionist painting are shown to articulate conflicting attitudes toward equality and doubts about the fate of democracy in an industrialized society. The methods of art history, reception theory, and social history merge in this study to explain how Americans came to see themselves in foreign art, and how the public gave these images meaning independent of official art criticism and their original French contexts. | ||
Book Description This book examines public reception of contemporary French painting in post-Civil War American society and demonstrates how a variety of audiences used foreign images to politicize their claims to cultural lives. Analyzed from class and regional perspectives, popular responses to Realist and Impressionist painting, recorded in the daily press and radical journals, are shown to articulate conflicting attitudes toward equality and doubts about the fate of democracy in an industrialized society. The methods of art history, reception theory, and social history merge in this study to explain how Americans came to see themselves in foreign art, and how the public gave these images meaning independent of official art criticism and their original French contexts. | ||