Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
Contents
1. A New Impressionism? -- 2. Anarchism and the Search for Solid Ground -- 3. Art Social: A Blow of the Pick? -- 4. Utopianism and the Retreat from the Grande Jatte -- 5. Terrible and Beau: The Modern World -- 6. The Turn to Activist Art: "To Crowds Still in Bondage" -- 7. The Moment of Neo-Impressionism -- Appendix: Impressionists and Revolutionaries, by "an Impressionist Comrade"