... both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive ... 's anarchism, for he regarded any authority, whatever the source, as a potential evil"13. The multi-dimensionality of Les Mauvais Bergers, its many political and artistic interpretations, is testament firstly to the...

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