{"product_id":"art-and-the-french-commune-9780691029627","title":"Art and the French Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism  Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a \"guilty secret\"--the need of the dominant  mainly bourgeois  classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. The Commune of 1871 emerged after the Prussian war when the Paris militia chased the central government to Versailles  enabling the working class and its allies to seize control of the capital. Eventually violence engulfed the city as traditional liberals and moderates joined forces with reactionaries to restore Paris to \"order\"--the bourgeois order. Here Boime examines the rise of Impressionism in relation to the efforts of the reinstated conservative government to \"rebuild\" Paris  to return it to its Haussmannian appearance and erase all reminders of socialist threat.  Boime contends that an organized Impressionist movement owed its initiating impulse to its complicity with the states program. The exuberant street scenes  spaces of leisure and entertainment  sunlit parks and gardens  the entire concourse of movement as filtered through an atmosphere of scintillating light and color all constitute an effort to reclaim Paris visually and symbolically for the bourgeoisie. Amply documented  richly illustrated  and compellingly argued  Boimes thesis serves as a challenge to all cultural historians interested in the rise of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651739344949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691029628","price":206.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691029627.jpg?v=1781838840","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-and-the-french-commune-9780691029627","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}