Pleasure wars

Met bibliogr. - Met reg. The nineteenth century bourgeois, from the capitalists in the top to the clerks and craftsmen at the bottom, played a major role in the breakthrough of modernism, according to the author. The century was also marked by the sponsoring of orchestras, the founding of museums and the private accumulation of art. Met lit. opg. en reg. 324 p., [16] p. pl. : ill. ; 25 cm.