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Revelation of modernism : responses to cultural crises in fin-de-siècle painting / Albert Boime.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2008.Description: xxiv, 250 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780826217806 (alk. paper)
  • 9780826217806 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Summary: "Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.

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

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