The politics of vision: essays on nineteenth-century art and society

Contents

The Invention of the avant-garde : France, 1830-1880 -- Courbet, Oller, and a sense of place : the regional, the provincial, and the picturesque in 19th-century art -- The imaginary orient -- Camille Pissarro : the unassuming eye -- Manet's Masked ball at the opera -- Van Gogh, Renouard, and the weavers' crisis in Lyons -- Leon Frederic and the stages of a worker's life -- Degas and the Dreyfus affair : a portrait of the artist as an anti-semite -- Seurat's La Grande Jatte : an anti-utopian allegory.