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Political Upheaval · 1871 · Turning point

Paris Commune

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Works dated 1868–1874

The violent suppression of the Commune radicalized artists and intellectuals, embedding social critique into Symbolism and the early avant-garde as a moral inheritance.

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Paris Commune (1871) · Ellsworth