The Politics of Vision
Subtitle: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (Icon Editions)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780064301879
Subjects: History; Criticism; Art and society; Art & Art Instruction; Art, Modern; France; Art / Criticism; 19th century; Art, French; 1800-1899 (19th century)
First sentence: "Art changes only through strong convictions, convictions strong enough to change society at the same time" So proclaimed Theophile Thore, auarante-buitard critic, admirer of Theodore Rousseau, Millet, and Courbet, an art historian who discovered Vermeer and one of the spokesmen for a new, more democratic art, in 1855, in exile from Louis Napoleon's imperial France.