Manet : portraying life.

Manet : portraying life.

"Depicting the Paris of his day, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) captured the nineteenth-century urban experience, legitimizing 'modern life' as an artistic subject. His detached, frank mode of looking and his subversive handling of both paint and subject-matter shocked his contemporaries,...

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Main Author: Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883
Corporate Authors: Toledo Museum of Art, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toledo : London : New York : Toledo Museum of Art ; Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2012.
Subjects:
Manet, Édouard, > 1832-1883 > Exhibitions.
Painting, French > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Portrait painting > France > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • Manet : portraying life, themes and variations / Maryanne Stevens
  • Théophile Gautier, militant of modernity / Stéphane Guégan
  • Manet at the intersection of portraits and personalities / Carol M. Armstrong
  • 'L'Espirit de l'atelier ' : Manet's late portraits of women, 1878-1883 / Leah Lehmbeck
  • Manet and Renoir : an unexamined dialogue / Colin B. Bailey
  • Manet and Hals : two geniuses, one vision / Lawrence W. Nichols
  • Catalogue plates / with section introductions by Maryanne Stevens. The artist and his family ; Artists ; Men of letters and figures of the stage ; The status portrait ; Models
  • Chronology / Sarah Lea
  • Catalogue entries / Maryanne Stevens, Leah Lehmbeck.

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