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Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France: Painting, Politics and Landscape book cover

1st Edition

Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France Painting, Politics and Landscape

By Robyn Roslak Copyright 2007
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

In Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France , Robyn Roslak examines for the first time the close relationship between neo-impressionist landscapes and cityscapes and the anarchist sympathies of the movement's artists. She focuses in particular on paintings produced between 1886 and 1905 by Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce, the neo-impressionists whose fidelity to anarchism, to the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Neo-impressionism, anarchism and the 'republic of science and reason'; Anarchists, artists and artisans; Representing Paris: streets, bridges and petits boulevards; Anarchist geography and the idea of landscape; 'Dirty and radiant, depressing and cheerful:' the neo-impressionist suburbs; Anarchists and tourists in Provence; Conclusion: looking forward, looking back: neo-impressionism around 1900; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Robyn Roslak is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA.

'... a brilliant and compelling contribution to art history and anarchist studies. Traversing the fields of art history, political science, history, ecology, and geography, Roslak has effectively rewritten the history of one of the 19th-century’s most important art movements.' Allan Antliff, University of Victoria, Canada

’Incorporating theories of cultural geography and tourism studies, unearthing little-discussed primary material, and presenting tightly unified argument, Robyn Roslak's Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France is essential reading for any scholar of Neo-Impressionism.’ Oxford Art Journal

’Robyn Roslak’s book is a welcome and illuminating study, adding to the still somewhat thin literature on neo-Impressionism.’ Art History

'... [a] ground-breaking study. ... Roslak’s book constitutes the first synthetic study of Neo-Impressionism to consider the anarchist import of this movement, free of the distorting lens of traditional Marxism.' H-France

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