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The first three essays explore how artists in the second half of the 19th century were attracted to images of rural life and landscape as a reaction to growing industrialization and urbanization, at the same time creating new techniques and pictorial devices whose radical inventions opposed the dominant forms and subjects of academic art. Four essays then address issues of overt social and political opposition among artists, demonstrating that these oppositions were in fact embraced within modernist capitalism as correctives to outmoded traditions. The concluding essays centre on Leger and the period from 1910 to 1925, in which there was a sudden acceptance of industrial imagery and the creation of forms that expressed the dynamism and fragmentation of modern culture.

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Robert L. Herbert is professor emeritus of humanities at Mount Holyoke College. He is also the author of Seurat: Drawings and Paintings, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts. Monet on the Normondy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886, and Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society, all published by Yale University Press.

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