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Criticizing French socialists in the 1880s, the French Marxist Jules Guesde coined the term "possibilist" to describe what he considered the opportunists and futilely moderate strategy of Paul Brousse and his followers In response, socialist leader Brousse gladly dubbed Guesde and his supporters the "impossibilists" as an emblem of intransigence...
...tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday." From Boston's Quincy Market to San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, the U.S. cityscape shines with burnished filigree and newly painted trim on public buildings. In Albany, the senate chamber in the capitol was recently restored to its original 1880s state at a cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior of its antebellum capitol in Montgomery in 1981 for roughly $3 million, and intends to begin work on the interior next year. The exterior of Pennsylvania's legislative building is in fine shape...
...1880s, Pissarro's work took a sharp turn toward pointillism, or "neo-impressionism," the dissection of light into swarms of tiny colored dots, which had been developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. So complete was his conversion and so short-lived-it lasted only five years-that it is hard to think of another artist of comparable talent and sincerity who was ever changed so sharply by men 30 years his junior. Certainly Pissarro was not scrambling onto a bandwagon...
...owners of the Finca Florencia, the powerful family that built the plantation is still a ghostly presence. They revere the memory of Angel, the patriarch who founded the finca in the late 1880s and built the big rustic house with its brick pillars and its view reaching from tin-roofed barns to stone walls enclosing acre after acre of lush coffee bushes. For 60 years, the plantation prospered under Angel and his grandson Carlos. Then Carlos turned over the Finca Florencia to his four sons, and by the 1950s the farm was in the hands of a hired manager...
When did modern art begin? It is impossible to fix a date; the roots are too tangled in the subsoil of the 19th century. But one can point to some crucial events of its growth. One of them happened in France in the late 1880s, within a group of painters-some now familiar to us as secular saints or movie heroes, others still relatively ill-known -who kept venturing out of Paris toward more "primitive" places. Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard ranged among the megaliths, the cold heather and the gaunt folk-Christs in Brittany. Vincent van Gogh pursued what...