Imagining the motherland: Puvis de Chavannes, modernism, and the fantasy of France. (Puvis de Chavannes' mural 'Summer')

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

At a time when French culture was aesthetically and politically polarized, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes provided a convincing national idiom. This paper examines the critical reception of Puvis de Chavannes's mural Summer (Paris, Hotel de Ville, 1891) in the context of debates about modernism, nationalism, and subjectivity that permeated fin de siecle culture. Summer's large flat areas of color and generalized, disjunctive forms mobilized individual fantasies of the maternal. Picturing the motherland, Summer put fantasy to the task of instilling collective identity. Furthermore, Summer provided ...

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