responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting /
Albert Boime
xxiv, 250 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
Van Gogh's starry, starry night : after the Apocalypse a heavenly Utopia -- Seurat's La parade de cirque : A political allegory of dystopia -- Cézanne's real and imagine estate : a Utopia of one's own -- Gauguin's D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? : millenarianism and necromancy in fin-de-siècle France -- Conclusion
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"Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, and Gauguin - and how they responded to cultural and spiritual crisis in the avant-garde world. Boime reconsiders familiar masterpieces and draws analogies with literary sources and social, personal, and political strategies to produce revelations that have eluded most art historians"--Provided by publisher