The Politics Of Vision - Essays On Nineteenth-century Art And Society (Paperback, 1st ed)

A critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics. Linda Nochlin questions the canonization of artists while examining the subordination of women as reflected in Western painting. The author reminds us the term avant-garde was once applied to Gustave Courbet's militantly radical realism. She laments Degas's simpleminded anti-semitism, yet finds that his prejudice, with a few flagrant exceptions, had little or no effect on his art. She traces a latent ideology of male domination and colonialism in the artificial orientalism of Eugene Delacroix and Jean-L on G r me. In the Belgian L on Fr d ric's proletarian triptych Stages of a Worker's Life she perceives a reactionary clinging to fatalistic religious beliefs. Other pieces deal with Seurat, Manet, Pissarro, Puerto Rican realist painter Francisco Oller and French reporter-illustrator Paul Renouard, whose drawings of long-suffering weavers influenced Van Gogh.

General

Imprint:	WestviewPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1991
First published:	March 1991
Authors:	Linda Nochlin
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	227
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-430187-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-06-430187-7
Barcode:	9780064301879

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