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Article: Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe. Edited by Michelle Facos and Sharon L. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 297. $75.00.)
For over a generation, art historians have increasingly asked questions of their visual sources that traditionally have been the concerns of historians, such as interrogating the social, economic, and political purposes and reception of specific works of art. The converse has also occurred. Historians have begun to "read" images in ways far different from their traditional pedagogical uses as "illustrative" or "reflective" of larger political developments. Art, Culture, and National Identity ...