A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions

by Stefan Jonsson

Stefan Jonsson uses three monumental works of art to build a provocative history of popular revolt: Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), and Alfredo Jaar's They Loved It So Much, the Revolution (1989). Addressing, respectively, the French Revolution of 1789, Belgium's proletarian messianism in the 1880s, and the worldwide rebellions and revolutions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145268
• ISBN13: 9780231145268
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"