Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871 / Albert Boime.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 801-862) and index.

Springtime and winter of the people in France, 1848-1852 -- Radical realism and its offspring -- Radical realism continued -- The pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 revolutions -- The Macchia and the Risorgimento -- Cultural inflections of slavery and manifest destiny in America -- Biedermeier culture and the revolutions of 1848 -- The Second Empire's official realism -- Edouard Manet: man about town -- The Franco-Prussian war, the French commune, and the threshold of Impressionism -- Coda: Menzel and the transition to empire.

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From the European revolutions of 1848 through the Italian independence movement, the American Civil War, and the French Commune, the era Albert Boime explores in this fourth volume of his epic series was, in a word, transformative. The period, which gave rise to such luminaries as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin, was also characterized by civic upheaval, quantum leaps in science and technology, and the increasing secularization of intellectual pursuits and ordinary life. In a sweeping narrative that adds critical depth to a key epoch in modern art?s history, Art in an Age of Civil Struggle shows.

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