Modernity and nostalgia : art and politics in France between the wars / Romy Golan.
By: Golan, Romy
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BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995Description: xiv, 228 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0300063504 .Subject(s): Art, French | Art, French -- 20th century | Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century | France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940DDC classification: 709.44
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.44 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005881 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For most of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, France was deemed to embody the very essence of artistic modernism. However, this study argues that, after World War I, traumatized by the experience of the trenches and then by the stranglehold of the Depression, France suffered a crisis of confidence so profound that it initiated a period of cultural, political and economic retrenchment that lasted into the Vichy years. The image that France acquired of itself - as a rural, feminine, feudal society - was not only reflected in the art of the period but was to a large extent fashioned and conditioned by it.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.