What happened in the cultural life in 19th century France that lead to the rise of avant-garde art in America? Jan-Ove Tuv sits down with Michael Pearce to review his book Kitsch, Propaganda and the American Avant-Garde.

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00:00 "Bohemian" and irresponsible?

03:16 The origin of "Bohemian"

06:47 Courbet - an old-master "modernist"

09:10 Courbet's loyalty to the time

15:48 Science and industrialization killed poetry

18:40 Proudhon, and the marriage of art and socialism

23:12 Courbet's attack on classical values

29:33 Victor Hugo: the sublime, sensual and sentimental

36:15 A Bohemian, ludicrous way of dying

39:36 Theophile Gautier's l'Art pour l'Art, psychedelics, spiritism and theosophy

42:47 Zola: modernist or classical?

48:26 Manet, the father of avant-garde modern art

54:10 Zola's "hour of demolition"

1:00:40 The Hippie movement

1:03:51 How to be a REAL Bohemian

1:07:50 Zola's isolated artists

1:13:58 Myths: the core classical value

1:16:19 The coquette Romantic?

This episode featured Michael Pearce & Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.

The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts' Hope.

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19th Century French Bohemia and the Proto-Avant-Garde | A Review of Michael J. Pearce's Book

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