Popular Bohemia : modernism and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris / Mary Gluck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gluck, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, French--France--Paris--19th century.

Arts, French.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Arts and society--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Arts and society.

Art and popular culture--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Art and popular culture.

Bohemianism--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Bohemianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book revises dominant historical narratives about modernism from the perspective of a theoretically informed cultural history that spans the period between 1830 and 1914. In doing so, it reconnects the intellectual history of avant-garde art with the cultural history of bohemia and the social history of the urban experience to reveal the circumstances in which a truly modernist culture emerged.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. The Historical Bohemian and the Discourse of Modernism

2. The Romantic Bohemian and the Performance of Melodrama

3. The Flâneur and the Phantasmagoria of the Modern City

4. The Decadent and the Culture of Hysteria

5. The Primitivist Artist and the Discourse of Exoticism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-215) and index.

ISBN:

9780674037670

0674037677

OCLC:

1013937986