The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900

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Yale University Press, 1 ene 2004 - 256 páginas

This fascinating book examines how artists in fin-de-siècle France dealt with four hotly debated issues in society: national decadence, crowds and mass unrest, religious imagery, and revenge against Germany.

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Introduction
Public Health and Private Desire Exploring Modernity and the Erotic
17
A Degenerating Nation?
21
Decadence and Transgressive Sexuality
32
Diagnosis Voyeurism Desire
36
Finding Forms for Sexual Experience
46
The Female Body and Psychological Narrative
57
Bourgeois Fear Bourgeois Fantasy
68
Modernity and the Picturing of Religion
142
The Parochial and the AntiModern
157
Anarchism and Religion
163
Always think about it never discuss it Imagery and the Idea of Revanche
167
Policy and Imagery in the 1890s
169
Reading the Imagery of Past War
180
Preparing the Next Generation
195
Looking into the Future
201

Theorising the Crowd
80
Controlling the Crowd
88
The Physical and Psychological Spaces of the City
95
Riot and Repression
104
The Religious Debate Representing Faith Defining Modernity
115
Painting the Faith
125
Secularisation AntiClericalism and Blasphemy
131
Images of AntiClericalism
138
The Costs of Ambiguity
218
Reading the 1890s
221
Notes
224
Bibliography
231
Index
247
Photograph Credits
254
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Richard Thomson is Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at Edinburgh University.

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