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June 10, 2009
Anna Green French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848–1886 Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. 342 pp.; 10 color ills.; 89 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754654605)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.55

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In her rigorous, provocative study, Anna Green engages the issues of modernism, modernity, and spectacle in later nineteenth-century Paris. Approaching the subject from the perspective of a social historian, she draws upon the writings of Charles Baudelaire and anchors her text in the theories of Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Georges Bataille, and T. J. Clark. Paintings by Édouard Manet appear throughout the book, and his is often the gaze through which modernity is...