HIS241H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Giuseppe Mazzini, Cubism, Napoleon Iii
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Gustave courbet: painter, rst one to coin the term realism , rst painting was self-portrait of a man in despair, painted other moments of reality. And then female genitalia: shocked the bourgeois society, romanticism didn t show despair or other dark moments of reality , realism = realistic approach, painting things exactly as they were seen. Artistic movement as response to revolutions of 1848: presented the lower class on the canvas so they can remind upper class who they pushed back to the lower class. Slavophiles: one of two intellectual movements that emerged in russia, rejected western european in uence, did not want industrialization, believed industrialization led to revolutions of 1848, did not want the same fate for. Russia: wanted to keep the tsar, religion, conservatism. 1832 reform act: in britain, expanded the franchise, voting rights extended to cities and to 3-4% of population, enough to satisfy the new industrial middle class, lessened political opposition.
