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II. Die Wahrnehmungen von Raum / The perceptions of space - Jill Murdoch: The Railway in Arcadia: An Approach to Modernity in British Visual Culture

bolically and literally as transporters of travellers and day trippers, made maintenance of the illusion impossible.

The vision of Arcadia, so recently constructed, was shattered by the intrusion of the railway. By the time a new vision was constructed by the Impressionists in the later years of the nineteenth century, it found transformed class relations and new political accommodations.

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