Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2002-3

No 49-3, 2002/3 - 288 pages

Order and Conflicts in Towns of the Old Regime

Pages 7 to 25

Between Loyalty and Rebellion: City General Assemblies in Grenoble (1588 – 1598)

By Stéphane Gal

Pages 26 to 53

Neighborhood Politics: Rights, Duties, and Conflicts in Ghent (17th–18th Centuries)

By Harald Deceulaer, Marc Jacobs

Artistic Practices: Authors, Institutions, Audiences

Pages 54 to 68

“Liberal Arts” and “Free Arts” in Paris in the Eighteenth Century: Artists Between the Guild and the Royal Academy

By Charlotte Guichard

Pages 69 to 88

The Second Reading Revolution in 18th-Century Italy

By Brendan Dooley

Pages 89 to 118

Theater and Its Audiences: Practices and Representations of the Parterre in Paris in the 18th Century

By Jeffrey S. Ravel

Pages 119 to 139

The Music Culture of a Capital: The Days of the Beau Monde in London, 1700 – 1870

By William Weber

Pages 140 to 167

Female Painters at Work: Self-Portraits as Political Manifestos (18th - 19th Centuries)

By Marie-Jo Bonnet

Pages 168 to 175

The Modernization of Art: Introduction of Oil Painting in Republican China

By Éric Janicot

Readings and Debates

Pages 176 to 194

Religious Symbols or Decontextualized Forms of Art: Transforming the Role of Images (15th–18th Centuries)

By Olivier Christin

Pages 195 to 208

Arts as an Element of Anxiety in History

By Jean-Philippe Chimot

Pages 209 to 250

Reviews

By Florence Alazard