| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations 1789: Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath 1. Seizing the Floor 2. The Shadow of Democracy 3. The Number of People 4. The Swinish Multitude 5. Social Depths 6. The Hydra 7. Marianne 8. Les Miserables 9. The Barricade 10. Making Monkey 11. Smokescreens 12. Mass Grave 889: James Ensor, Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 13. The Crucified 14. The Belgian's Glory 15. Divorce 16. Hallucinations 17. Society Degree Zero 18. The Nigger 19. The Modern Breakthrough 20. Songs of the Fool 21. Homo Sacer 1989: Alfredo Jaar, They Loved It So Much, the Revolution 22. The Beloved 23. The Backside of the State 24. The Empty Throne 25. Political Violence 26. With Nails of Gold 27. Of Men and Beasts 28. Desperados 29. Autoimmunity 30. Saints 31. Complaints 32. The Baggage of the Barbarians 33. Departure Afterword Notes Index |
| Summary |
Stefan Jonsson uses three monumental works of art to build a provocative history of popular revolt: Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888), and Alfredo Jaar's They Loved It So Much, the Revolution (1989). Addressing, respectively, the French Revolution of 1789, Belgium's proletarian messianism in the 1880s, and the worldwide rebellions and revolutions of 1968, these canonical images not only depict an alternative view of history but offer a new understanding of the relationship between art and politics and the revolutionary nature of true democracy.--publisher's description |
| Analysis |
UmU kursbok |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Swedish |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
David, Jacques Louis. Schwur im Ballhaus. swd |
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Ensor, James. Einzug Christi in Brüssel im Jahre 1889. swd |
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Jaar, Alfredo. Ils l'ont tant aimée, la revolution. swd |
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Art and history -- Europe
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History, Modern, in art.
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Social classes in art.
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Social movements -- Europe
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Revolutions -- Europe
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ART -- History -- General.
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Art and history
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History, Modern, in art
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Revolutions
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Social classes in art
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Social movements
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Kunst
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Revolution Motiv
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Europe
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Europa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231517928 |
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0231517920 |
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