"Art in an Age of Civil Struggle 1848–1871" by Albert Boime

This issue extends into the late nineteenth century Albert Boimes commanding perspective on the dynamics of cultural development within the nascent industrial and capitalist democratic societies of Europe and the Unit- States. Boimes now-indispensable erudition and scholarship are always accessible and enjoyable, fostering a sense of the readers participation in this art historical journey toward explanations of a social and cultural order increasingly familiar to us now in ours.

From the European revolutions of 1848 through the Italian independence movement, the American Civil War, and the French Commune, the era Albert Boime explores in this fourth volume of his epic series was, in a word, transformative. The period, which gave rise to such luminaries as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin, was also characteriz- by civic upheaval, quantum leaps in science and technology, and the increasing secularization of intellectual pursuits and ordinary life.

Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
1 Springtime and Winter of the People in France, 1848-1852
- Thomas Couture's Enrollment of the Volunteers
- The Realism of The Enrollment
- The Competition for the Figure of the Republic
- The Politics of the Sketch
- The Sculpture Competition
- Foreign Reaction to the Competitions of 1848
2 Radical Realism and Its Offspring
- Realism and Its Discontents
- France, 1848
- Jean-Francois Millet
- The Realist-Rural Discourse
- Millet's Sower
3 Radical Realism Continu-
- Gustave Courbet
- Coda on Courbet and Walt Whitman
4 The Pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 Revolutions
- The Origins of the Pre-Raphaelites
- William Holman Hunt
- Rossetti's Found
- Ford Madox Brown
5 The Macchia and the Risorgimento
- The Architects of Italian Unity
- Macchiaiolismo versus Accademismo
- The Ricasoli Competitions
- Fattori's Entry
- Religious and Social Themes
- Italian Feminism
6 Cultural Inflections of Slavery and Manifest Destiny in America
- War News from Mexico
- George Caleb Bingham
- Lilly Martin Spencer
- Fourierisme—American Style
- The Art of Exclusion
- William Sidney Mount
- John Quincy Adams Ward
- Edmonia Lewis
- Eastman Johnson
- Thomas Satterwhite Noble
- Civil War Devastation and the Landscape of Manifest Destiny
- The Metallic Line of Least Resistance
7 Biedermeier Culture and the Revolutions of 1848
- Vienna
- Moritz von Schwind
- Carl Spitzweg
- Copenhagen
- Prussia and the Revolution of 1848
- Rethel's Todtentanz
- Hasenclever's Workers Confronting the Magistrature
- Menzel's Aufbahrung der Marzgefallenen (Public Funeral for the Victims of the March Revolution)
8 The Second Empire's Official Realism
- Haussmannizing Paris
- The Government Influence in the Beaux-Arts
- General Observations on Second Empire History Painting
- A Curious Collaboration
- The Salon
- Other Examples of Second Empire Visual Intervention
9 Edouard Manet: Man About Town
- Naturalism versus Realism
- Manet's Family Background
- Manet and Couture
- The Absinthe Drinker
- The Boy with the Cherries and The Gamin of Paris
- Flanerie and Modernity
-The Old Musician
- The Street Singer
- Le Dejeuner sur I'herbe
- Salon des Refuses
- Olympia
- The World’s Fair of 1867
- Portrait of Zola
- Manet and Civil War Abroad and at Home
- Manet and the Commune
10 The Franco-Prussian War, the French Commune, and the Threshold of Impressionism
- The Critical Reception
- The Impressionist Agenda
Coda: Menzel and the Transition to Empire
Notes
Photo Credits
Index

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