Colonizing the Côte d'Azur: Neo-Impressionism, Anarcho-Communism and the Tropical Terre Libreof the Maures, c.1892-1908
This article explores neo-impressionist representations of the Maures region (Hyères-St Raphaël) of the Côte d'Azur as an ideal space of anarcho-communist liberty or, to borrow from Jean Grave's Terre Libre: Les Pionniers (1908), a "free land." In doing so it questions art-historical literature of such images as utopian, with its implication of geographic non-specificity, through analyses of anarcho-communist and geographical texts and images. Tropical markers, especially palm trees, feature in Grave's vision of a "free land," corresponding to perceptions by contemporaneous artists, tourists a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | RIHA Journal, Vol 0045 (2012) |
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International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
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Schlagwörter: | neo-impressionism / the Maures / Côte d'Azur / artist colony / anarcho-communism / Melanesia / Jean Grave / Mabel Holland Thomas / sunlight / Henri Edmond Cross / Theo Rysselberghe / Fine Arts / N |
Sprache: | Deutsch Englisch Spanish Französisch Italian |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26711241 |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/3832eac011044aaba462fc2b7c0d80f4 |