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In this book, a leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
In nine essays accompanied by 62 plates, Nochlin ( Women, Art, and Power ) incisively questions the canonization of artists while examining the subordination of women as reflected in Western painting. She reminds us that the term ``avant-garde'' was once applied to Gustave Courbet's militantly radical realism. She laments Degas's ``simpleminded anti-Semitism,'' yet finds that his prejudice, with a few flagrant exceptions, had little or no effect on his art. She traces a latent ideology of male domination and colonialism in the artificial orientalism of Eugene Delacroix and Jean-Leon Gerome. In the Belgian Leon Frederic's proletarian triptych Stages of a Worker's Life she perceives a reactionary clinging to fatalistic religious beliefs. Other pieces deal with Seurat, Manet, Pissarro, Puerto Rican realist painter Francisco Oller, and French reporter-illustrator Paul Renouard, whose drawing of long-suffering weavers influenced Van Gogh. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Choice Review
In the brief introduction, Nochlin clearly and succinctly defines the politics of art history, including the formalists' ideas of the 19th century and the various branches of the revisionist thinking. These collected essays span the 20 years of art historian Linda Nochlin's career and represent, as an entity, her viewpoint; renouncing the methodologies of formalism and all the branches of revisionist art historical thinking, Nochlin acknowledges that her work in feminism has given her more than a revisionist view of art--one which she simply classifies as the "OTHER." Supplementing this "OTHER" viewpoint, Nochlin's essays, especially "The Imaginary Orient," provoke vital issues, questioning political attitudes as manifested in visual representation, e.g., Can one invariably read an artist's politics from his art? All students and scholars of art history will find this work insightful yet unsettling; general historians will also appreciate Nochlin's mind-set. -L. Doumato, National Gallery of Art
Library Journal Review
These essays, which Nochlin (art history, CUNY) wrote and published in various places over a 20-year period, explore the political and social context of 19th-century art. Among the topics considered are the fondness of the Academy painters for the oriental theme, Degas's anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus affair, and Seurat's ``La Grande Jatte'' as suburban bourgeois hell. Included also are essays on aspects of the work of Courbet, Manet, Pisarro, Van Gogh, and the lesser known Francisco Oller and Leon Frederic. In places Nochlin's writing style is of the thick academic variety, but her ideas are well grounded and thought-provoking. Academic libraries and extensive art history collections will wish to acquire. (Photos not seen.)-- Hara Seltzer, NYPL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. vi |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction | p. xii |
| Notes | p. xxiii |
| 1 The Invention of the Avant-Garde France, 1830-1880 | p. 1 |
| Notes | p. 17 |
| 2 Courbet, Oller, and a Sense Of Place: the Regional, The Provincial, and the Picturesque In19th-Century Art | p. 19 |
| Notes | p. 32 |
| 3 The Imaginary Orient | p. 33 |
| Notes | p. 57 |
| 4 Camille Pissarro The Unassuming Eye | p. 60 |
| Notes | p. 74 |
| 5 Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera | p. 75 |
| Notes | p. 92 |
| 6 Van Gogh, Renouard, And The Weavers' Crisis in Lyons | p. 95 |
| 7 Léon Frédéric And The Stages of a Worker's Life | p. 120 |
| Notes | p. 139 |
| 8 Degas and the Dreyfus Affair A Portrait of the Artist As an Anti-Semite | p. 141 |
| Notes | p. 164 |
| 9 Seurat's La Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory | p. 170 |
| Notes | p. 190 |
| Index | p. 194 |