The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Illustrations vi
• Acknowledgments x
• Introduction xii
• Notes xxiii
• 1 The Invention of the Avant-Garde: France, 1830-1880 1
• Notes 17
• 2 Courbet, Oller, and a Sense Of Place: the Regional, The Provincial, and the Picturesque In 19th-Century Art 19
• Notes 32
• 3 The Imaginary Orient 33
• Notes 57
• 4 Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye 60
• Notes 74
• 5 Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera 75
• Notes 92

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Illustrations vi
• Acknowledgments x
• Introduction xii
• Notes xxiii
• 1 The Invention of the Avant-Garde: France, 1830-1880 1
• Notes 17
• 2 Courbet, Oller, and a Sense Of Place: the Regional, The Provincial, and the Picturesque In 19th-Century Art 19
• Notes 32
• 3 The Imaginary Orient 33
• Notes 57
• 4 Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye 60
• Notes 74
• 5 Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera 75
• Notes 92
• 6 Van Gogh, Renouard, And The Weavers' Crisis in Lyons 95
• 7 Léon Frédéric And The Stages of a Worker's Life 120
• Notes 139
• 8 Degas and the Dreyfus Affair: A Portrait of the Artist As an Anti-Semite. 141
• Notes 164
• 9 Seurat's La Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory 170
• Notes 190
• Index 194