Revelation of Modernism: Responses to Cultural Crises in Fin-de-sie`cle Painting"Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, and Gauguin - and how they responded to cultural and spiritual crisis in the avant-garde world. Boime reconsiders familiar masterpieces and draws analogies with literary sources and social, personal, and political strategies to produce revelations that have eluded most art historians"--Provided by publisher. |
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II Seurats La parade de cirque | 52 |
III Cézannes Real and Imagined Estate | 102 |
IV Gauguins Doù venonsnous? Que sommesnous? Où allonsnous? | 135 |
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