Albert Boime Knihy

The book delves into the intersection of Impressionism and the political landscape of post-Commune Paris, revealing how the bourgeois classes sought to erase the memory of the 1871 Commune and its socialist roots. Albert Boime argues that the rise of Impressionism was influenced by the conservative government's efforts to restore the city's traditional order and aesthetics after the upheaval. He highlights the tension between artistic expression and political power, framing Impressionism as a response to the societal need for historical amnesia regarding the socialist movement.

Examines art in a broad historical context and explores the artistic repercussions of the major political and economic events of the latter half of the eigtheenth century.

In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art.Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era.Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.—R. W. Liscombe, Choice

"Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, 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.

The book offers a groundbreaking analysis of how violence influences political structures, particularly within civil and fraternal contexts. It systematically explores the interplay between violence and the organization of society, providing insights into the underlying dynamics that shape political order. Through this examination, the author sheds light on the often-overlooked aspects of violence in governance and social cohesion.

Se ha supuesto repetidas veces que este conocidísimo cuadro de Van Gogh es muestra de una de las alucinaciones del artista. El autor de este ensayo se ha apartado del lugar común y ha descubierto que Van Gogh conocía bien las diversas constelaciones y no era ajeno a la astrología, y que en La noche estrellada pintó un cuadro realista en el que quiso plasmar su sino, lejos de la religión y de la vida burguesa.