The troubled republic : visual culture and social debate in France 1889 - 1900 / Richard Thomson
Author(s): Thomson, Richard
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The troubled republic : visual culture and social debate in France 1889 - 1900
- Author(s)
- Thomson, Richard
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004
- Collation
- 256 p. : b/w ill.
24 cm. - ISBN
- 0300104650
- Dewey Class
- 709.44
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- ONE: Public Health and Private Desire: Exploring Modernity and the Erotic; A Degenerating Nation?; Decadence and Transgressive Sexuality; Looking at the Body: Diagnosis, Voyeurism, Desire; Finding Forms for Sexual Experience; The Female Body and Psychological Narrative; Adultery: Bourgeois Fear, Bougeois Fantasy -- TWO: Picturing and Policing the Crowd; Cycles of Violence, Systems of Control; Theorising the Crowd; Controlling the Crowd; The Physical and Psychological Spaces of the City; Riot and Regression -- THREE: The Religious Debate-Representing Faith, Defining Modernity; Relision and the Republic; Painting the Faith; Secularisation, Anti-Clericalism and Blasphemy; Images of Anti-Claricalism; Modernity and the Picturing of Religion; The Parochial and the Anti-Modern; A Concluding Paradox: Anarchism and Religion -- FOUR: 'Always think about it; never discuss it'-Imagery and the Idea of Revanche; Revanche or Regret?; Policy and Imagery in the 1890s; Reading the Imagery of Past War; Preparing the Next Generation; Looking into the Future; The Costs of Ambiguity -- Reading the 1890s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photograph Credits.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art and society -- France -- History
- BRN
- 1522
Notes
- With bibliography and index
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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709.44 THO
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