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Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: October 25, 1995

ISBN: 0300063504

ISBN 13: 9780300063509

Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: October 25, 1995

ISBN: 0300063504

ISBN 13: 9780300063509

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