ebooks Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris by Marni Reva Kessler in Arts-Photography

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From the European revolutions of 1848 through the Italian independence movement; the American Civil War; and the French Commune; the era Albert Boime explores in this fourth volume of his epic series was; in a word; transformative. The period; which gave rise to such luminaries as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin; was also characterized by civic upheaval; quantum leaps in science and technology; and the increasing secularization of intellectual pursuits and ordinary life. In a sweeping narrative that adds critical depth to a key epoch in modern artrsquo;s history; Art in an Age of Civil Struggle shows how this turbulent social environment served as an incubator for the mid-nineteenth centuryrsquo;s most important artists and writers.Tracing the various movements of realism through the major metropolitan centers of Europe and America; Boime strikingly evokes the milieus that shaped the lives and works of Gustave Courbet; Edouard Manet; Eacute;mile Zola; Honoreacute; Daumier; Walt Whitman; Abraham Lincoln; and the earliest photographers; among countless others. In doing so; he spearheads a powerful new way of reassessing how art emerges from the welter of cultural and political events and the artistrsquo;s struggle to interpret his surroundings. Boime supports this multifaceted approach with a wealth of illustrations and written sources that demonstrate the intimate links between visual culture and social change. Culminating at the transition to impressionism; Art in an Age of Civil Struggle makes historical sense of a movement that paved the way for avant-garde aesthetics and; more broadly; of how a particular style emerges at a particular moment.