Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elizabeth Cropper
  • Introduction / June Hargrove and Neil McWilliam
  • Nationalism and representation, in theory / Michael R. Orwicz
  • National art and French art : history, art, and politics during the early third republic / Marie-Claude Genet-Delacroix
  • Qui vive? : France! : war monuments from the defense to the Revanche / June Hargrove
  • Representing the 1870-1871 war, or the impossible Revanche / Francois Robichon
  • Legends of the painter hero : remembering Henri Regnault / Marc Gotlieb
  • "Faire vrai laisser dire" : nationalism, community, and Manet's late paintings / Jane Mayo Roos
  • Frenchness, memory, and abstraction : the case of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes / Jennifer L. Shaw
  • Blague, nationalism, and incoherence / Jorgelina Orfila
  • Vox Dei, Vox Populi : sacred art and popular political culture in late nineteenth-century France / Raymond Jonas
  • Regionalism versus nationalism in French visual culture, 1889-1900 : the cases of Nancy and Toulouse / Richard Thomson
  • Medievalism, classicism, and nationalism : the appropriation of the French Primitifs in turn-of-the-century France / Laura Morowitz
  • A denationalized landscape? : Braque's early cubist landscapes and nationalist geography / Christopher Green
  • Action francaise, classicism, and the dilemmas of traditionalism in France, 1900-1914 / Neil McWilliam
  • The quarrel over classicism : a quest for uniqueness / Gaetano DeLeonibus
  • Georges Sorel and the anti-enlightenment : art, ideology, politics / Mark Antliff.