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Aaron Scharf, Professor of Art History, at the Open University, talks about the involvement of artists in the revolutionary Paris of 1848. The new republican government showed sympathy to the arts ...and prevented the crowd from destroying the collection in the Louvre which belonged to the nation although valuable works were destroyed by the mob while sacking the Palais Royal - the home of the Orleans family. Daumier freed from censorship catches the mood of the time anticipating Flaubert's Sentimental Education of twenty years later. Artists were intoxicated with the promise of freedom and alternatives to the official academic style became a reality. The new government sponsored a competition for a painting of "The Republic" which encouraged freedom of style. Yet there was still resistance to the realism of Courbet and Millet. Antagonism for the new art continued for at least forty years.
Metadata describing this Open University audio programme
Module code and title: A202, The age of revolutions
Item code: A202; 30
First transmission date: 1972-08-19
Published: 1972
Rights Statement: Rights owned or controlled by The Open University
Restrictions on use: This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages.
Duration: 00:18:00
Note: A broadcasting supplement accompanies the talk illustrating works of art which Professor Scharf refers to.
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Producer: Nick Levinson
Contributors: Dallas Cavall; Aaron Scharf
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Flaubert's Sentimental Education
Master spool number: TLN47FM185J
Production number: TLN47FM185J
Available to public: no