| Description |
214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Hobbs -- Encounters with modern life. 1. A painter's impressions of modernity: Delacroix, citizen of the nineteenth century / Michele Hannoosh -- Second Empire impressions. 2. Curiosite /John House. 3. On his knees to the past? Gautier, Ingres and forms of modern art / James Kearns. 4. 'Le Peintre de la vie moderne' and 'La Peinture de la vie ancienne' / Paul Smith -- Innovating forms. 5. Matter for reflexion: nineteenth-century French art critics' quest for modernity in sculpture / David Scott. 6. Visual display in the Realist novel: 'l'aventure du style' / Richard Hobbs. 7. Dirt and desire: troubled waters in Realist practice / Alan Krell -- Modernity and identity. 8. The dancer as woman: Loie Fuller and Stephane Mallarme / Dee Reynolds. 9. The atelier novel: painters as fictions / Joy Newton. 10. To move the eyes: Impressionism, Symbolism and well-being, c. 1891 / Richard Shiff |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts, French -- 19th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- France.
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Arts, French.
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Modernism (Art) -- France.
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Art and literature -- France.
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| Author |
Hobbs, Richard.
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| LC no. |
97018003 |
| ISBN |
0719048958 |
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