Revelation of modernism
Subtitle: responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting
By: Albert Boime.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780826217806
Subjects: Painting, European -- 19th century; Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Social problems in art
Description: "Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.