Revelation of modernism

By Albert Boime

Subjects: Art and society, European Painting, Painting, European, Painting, european, History, Social problems in art

Description: "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.