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Conference
Societal and Economic Changes in Painting from 1850 Onwards
Thursday, July 2, 2026Conference presented by Sophie Doudet, co-organised as part of the OFF programme of the Aix-en-Provence Economic Meetings.
“If painting is a faithful - or sometimes distorted - mirror of reality, what does it reveal about the profound socio-economic transformations of the 19th century? From the Romantics to the Realists, from the Impressionists to the avant-gardes, we will explore how painters became lucid - and often critical - witnesses to the revolutions, progress, hopes and disillusionments of their time. Did artists and the political and economic figures of this century of ‘possibilities’ ultimately celebrate the same vision of modernity?”
Introduction of the speaker
Sophie Doudet
Sophie Doudet is a lecturer in French literature at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, where she has been teaching general culture, literature, and the history of arts and ideas since 2001. She has written biographies of Winston Churchill, André Malraux, Madame de Staël, and Abbé Pierre in Gallimard's “Folio biographie” collection. She is the author of young adult novels published by Scrineo on Rimbaud, Churchill, Michelangelo, and Da Vinci. Finally, she participated in the creation of the exhibition “Camus Citoyen du monde” in Aix-en-Provence in 2013.
