Paris in despair : art and everyday life under siege (1870-71) / Hollis Clayson.
2002
N6850 .C58 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Paris in despair : art and everyday life under siege (1870-71) / Hollis Clayson.
Author
Clayson, Hollis, 1946-
ISBN
9780226109572 paperback
0226109577 paperback
9780226109510 hardcover
0226109518 hardcover
0226109577 paperback
9780226109510 hardcover
0226109518 hardcover
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
Language
English
Description
xxxi, 485 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
N6850 .C58 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
709/.44361/09034
Summary
"The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in Paris in Despair, the siege took a heavy toll on the city's artists, forcing them out of the spaces and routines of their insular prewar lives, and literally thrusting onto the ramparts the many among them who became soldiers.".
"But the crisis did not halt artistic production, as some have suggested. In fact, Clayson argues that the siege actually encouraged innovation, fostering changed attitudes and new approaches to representation among a wide variety of artists as they made art out of their individual experiences of adversity and change - art that has not previously been considered within the context of the siege. Clayson focuses especially on Rosa Bonheur, Edgar Degas, Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere, Edouard Manet, and Henri Regnault, but she also covers a host of other artists, including Louis-Ernest Barrias, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Detaille, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Albert Robida, and James Tissot.
Paris in Despair includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white images of works by these artists and others, many never before published." "Using the visual arts as an interpretive lens, Clayson illuminates the wide range of issues at play during the siege and thereafter, including questions of political and cultural identity, artistic masculinity and femininity, public versus private space, everyday life and modernity, and gender and class roles in military and civilian society. For anyone concerned with these issues, or with nineteenth-century French art in general, Paris in Despair will be a landmark work."--BOOK JACKET.
"But the crisis did not halt artistic production, as some have suggested. In fact, Clayson argues that the siege actually encouraged innovation, fostering changed attitudes and new approaches to representation among a wide variety of artists as they made art out of their individual experiences of adversity and change - art that has not previously been considered within the context of the siege. Clayson focuses especially on Rosa Bonheur, Edgar Degas, Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere, Edouard Manet, and Henri Regnault, but she also covers a host of other artists, including Louis-Ernest Barrias, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Detaille, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Albert Robida, and James Tissot.
Paris in Despair includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white images of works by these artists and others, many never before published." "Using the visual arts as an interpretive lens, Clayson illuminates the wide range of issues at play during the siege and thereafter, including questions of political and cultural identity, artistic masculinity and femininity, public versus private space, everyday life and modernity, and gender and class roles in military and civilian society. For anyone concerned with these issues, or with nineteenth-century French art in general, Paris in Despair will be a landmark work."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
"But the crisis did not halt artistic production, as some have suggested. In fact, Clayson argues that the siege actually encouraged innovation, fostering changed attitudes and new approaches to representation among a wide variety of artists as they made art out of their individual experiences of adversity and change - art that has not previously been considered within the context of the siege. Clayson focuses especially on Rosa Bonheur, Edgar Degas, Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere, Edouard Manet, and Henri Regnault, but she also covers a host of other artists, including Louis-Ernest Barrias, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Detaille, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Albert Robida, and James Tissot.
Paris in Despair includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white images of works by these artists and others, many never before published." "Using the visual arts as an interpretive lens, Clayson illuminates the wide range of issues at play during the siege and thereafter, including questions of political and cultural identity, artistic masculinity and femininity, public versus private space, everyday life and modernity, and gender and class roles in military and civilian society. For anyone concerned with these issues, or with nineteenth-century French art in general, Paris in Despair will be a landmark work."--BOOK JACKET.
Paris in Despair includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white images of works by these artists and others, many never before published." "Using the visual arts as an interpretive lens, Clayson illuminates the wide range of issues at play during the siege and thereafter, including questions of political and cultural identity, artistic masculinity and femininity, public versus private space, everyday life and modernity, and gender and class roles in military and civilian society. For anyone concerned with these issues, or with nineteenth-century French art in general, Paris in Despair will be a landmark work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
I. Paris Under Siege. 1. The War, the Artists, and the History of Art. 2. The Binant Series and the Wartime Everyday
II. Trapped: The City Transformed. 3. Claustrophobia: La Ville Lumiere Goes Dark. 4. Everyone's a Soldier? 5. Gender and Allegory in Flux. 6. The Food Crisis
III. The Artists' War
Introduction: The Horizon of Response. 7. Gustave Courbet Saves the Louvre. 8. Edouard Manet: Restless Modernism. 9. Henri Regnault: Wartime Orientalism. 10. Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere: Sculpting Resistance. 11. Rosa Bonheur: A Manly Animalier Soldiering On. 12. Edgar Degas: Portraiture and Empathy
IV. Commemorating the Siege in the Aftermath of the Paris Commune. 13. La Place de la Concorde in War and Peace.
II. Trapped: The City Transformed. 3. Claustrophobia: La Ville Lumiere Goes Dark. 4. Everyone's a Soldier? 5. Gender and Allegory in Flux. 6. The Food Crisis
III. The Artists' War
Introduction: The Horizon of Response. 7. Gustave Courbet Saves the Louvre. 8. Edouard Manet: Restless Modernism. 9. Henri Regnault: Wartime Orientalism. 10. Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere: Sculpting Resistance. 11. Rosa Bonheur: A Manly Animalier Soldiering On. 12. Edgar Degas: Portraiture and Empathy
IV. Commemorating the Siege in the Aftermath of the Paris Commune. 13. La Place de la Concorde in War and Peace.