Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848Art for art's sake. Art created in pursuit of personal expression. In Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, Albert Boime rejects these popular modern notions and suggests that history—not internal drive or expressive urge—as the dynamic force that shapes art. This volume focuses on the astonishing range of art forms currently understood to fall within the broad category of Romanticism. Drawing on visual media and popular imagery of the time, this generously illustrated work examines the art of Romanticism as a reaction to the social and political events surrounding it. Boime reinterprets canonical works by such politicized artists as Goya, Delacroix, Géricault, Friedrich, and Turner, framing their work not by personality but by its sociohistorical context. Boime's capacious approach and scope allows him to incorporate a wide range of perspectives into his analysis of Romantic art, including Marxism, social history, gender identity, ecology, structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory, a reach that parallels the work of contemporary cultural historians and theorists such as Edward Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederic Jameson, and T. J. Clark. Boime ultimately establishes that art serves the interests and aspirations of the cultural bourgeoisie. In grounding his arguments on their work and its scope and influence, he elucidates how all artists are inextricably linked to history. This book will be used widely in art history courses and exert enormous influence on cultural studies as well. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conceptualizing Counterrevolution | 9 |
The Nazarenes | 35 |
Part I | 91 |
Part II | 151 |
French Absolutisms Last Stand | 189 |
An Umbrella Organization 18301848 | 237 |
7 Fractures in the Juste Milieu | 323 |
8 The Counterrevolutionary Origins of Photography and Modern Landscape Painting | 413 |
A Comparison | 517 |
Romanticism to Realism | 553 |
Notes | 659 |
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