Art, War and Revolution in France 1870-1871
Subtitle: Myth, Reportage and Reality
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300084078
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Revolutions & coups; Warfare & Defence; c 1800 to c 1900; Art And Society; France - History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; European; History / France; Fine Arts; Art and the war; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; History; Influence; Paris (France); Propaganda, Anti-German
Description: "During a brief and ferociously violent ten-month period between 1870 and 1871, the last Napoleonic empire was destroyed, France was plunged into a hopeless war with Prussia, Paris was besieged, and the Paris Commune revolted and was suppressed by a new Republic. This engrossing book surveys the responses made by artists to these cataclysmic events.".

"John Milner investigates not only what the war and the Commune meant to the artists concerned but also how artists defined the character and nature of events and presented them to the public, thereby influencing their reception, interpretation, and impact."--BOOK JACKET.