Screen LibraryManet and modern beauty : the artist's last years /
"An examination of the last years of the artist Édouard Manet's life and work"--Provided by publisher.
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
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| Publisher Address: | Los Angeles : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"An examination of the last years of the artist Édouard Manet's life and work"--Provided by publisher. "The name Manet evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafés. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet's elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist's unapolog |
| Item Description: | "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years, on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 26 to September 8, 2019, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from October 8, 2019, to January 12, 2020." |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781606066041 (hardcover) : 1606066048 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | N6853 |
| CLC: | J205.565 |
| Call Number: | J205.565/M275 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: beauty, fashion, and happiness / Faux frere: Manet and the Salon, 1879-1882 / "The type of an era": Manet and the Parisienne / All the world's a stage: Manet's images of model-actresses / Foregrounding Manet's backgrounds / Manet and the eighteenth century / Manet's little nothings / Manet's fleurs du mal |