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Dreams of Happiness - Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850 (Paperback)
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Dreams of Happiness - Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in
post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum
of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society
that assigned a crucial role to aesthetics. In this full-length
investigation of social romanticism, Neil McWilliam explores the
profound impact of radical philosophies on contemporary aesthetics
and art criticism, and traces efforts to conscript the arts for
doctrinal ends. He highlights the complexity and diversity of
systems such as Saint-Simonianism, Fourierism, Republicanism, and
Christian Socialism--movements that set out to exploit the
ameliorative effect of aesthetic form on human consciousness--and
challenges the previous linking of social art to narrow
didacticism. This book seeks an understanding both of the
conventions of artistic judgment and reception and of the aims and
significance of radical political ideologies. Drawing on a broad
spectrum of previously neglected journalistic criticism, visual
material, and archival sources, together with key political texts
by figures such as Saint-Simon, Philippe Buchez, and Pierre Leroux,
this work reveals an important facet of radical history and
modifies received understandings of French art in the wake of
Romanticism. In the process it probes the role of culture within
oppositional political practice, arguing that the ultimate failure
to realize a social art exposes the limits of the radicals' break
with dominant discourse and their hesitancy in forging links with a
culturally disenfranchised working class. Originally published in
1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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