Boime reappraises specific works by Van Gogh, Seurat, C???zanne, and Gauguin from a perspective more appreciative of the individuals' inner conflicts, offering a new understanding of a period fraught with apocalyptic fears and existential anxieties. Boime rejects popular notions of "art for art's sake" and rethinks an entire movement to suggest that history, rather than expressive urge, is the driving force that shapes art. He reconsiders familiar masterpieces from a fresh perspective, situating the art in the contexts of ...
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Boime reappraises specific works by Van Gogh, Seurat, C???zanne, and Gauguin from a perspective more appreciative of the individuals' inner conflicts, offering a new understanding of a period fraught with apocalyptic fears and existential anxieties. Boime rejects popular notions of "art for art's sake" and rethinks an entire movement to suggest that history, rather than expressive urge, is the driving force that shapes art. He reconsiders familiar masterpieces from a fresh perspective, situating the art in the contexts of history both real and speculative, of contemporary philosophy, and of science to depict modernism as a development that ultimately failed.
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Seller's Description:
Good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Figures. Audience: General/trade. Ships with signature confirmation. 2008 hardcover 1st edition 1st printing with full number line. Denting on dj and cover, surface scratch on dj, light underlining (I see it on the back ep and less than 10 pages of the text but might have missed something), binding tight.
