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The politics of vision : essays on nineteenth-century art and society / Linda Nochlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nochlin, Linda.
- Series:
- Icon editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--France--History--19th century.
- Art and society.
- Art, French--19th century.
- Art, French.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 200 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1989]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
- Contents:
- The Invention of the avant-garde : France, 1830-1880
- 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
- Manet's Masked ball at the opera
- Van Gogh, Renouard, and the weavers' crisis in Lyons
- Leon Frederic and the stages of a worker's life
- Degas and the Dreyfus affair : a portrait of the artist as an anti-semite
- Seurat's La Grande Jatte : an anti-utopian allegory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nochlin, Linda. Politics of vision.
- ISBN:
- 9780429495960
- 042949596X
- Publisher Number:
- 99989198909
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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