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A study of French rural society during an age of revolutionary experimentation with democratic institutions.
An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.
This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789.
Martha Ward tracks the development and reception of neo-impressionism, revealing how the artists and critics of the French art world of the 1880s and 1890s created painting's first modern vanguard movement. Paying particular attention to the participation of Camille Pissarro, the only older artist to join the otherwise youthful movement, Ward sets the neo-impressionists' individual achievements in the context of a generational struggle to redefine the purposes of painting. She describes the conditions of display, distribution, and interpretation that the neo-impressionists challenged, and explains how these artists sought to circulate their own work outside of the prevailing system. Painting...