Screen LibraryManet : 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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Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | London : New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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, and eventually established his reputation as the father of modern painting. This remarkable book explores Manet's portraiture, a significant yet often neglected aspect of his work, including examples from throughout his career. Leading authorities provide a thorough review of the artist's stylistic evolution, considering the influence of seventeenth-century Dutch painters, parallels with the work of Renoir and links with early photography. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, works on paper, and photographs of models and sitters, this landmark study throws new light in the quintessential painter of modernity."--Page 2 of cover. |
| Item Description: |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2012-Jan. 1, 2013, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Jan. 26-Apr. 14, 2013. "Exhibition curators: Royal Academy of Arts, Mary Anne Stevens assisted by Sarah Lea ; Toledo Museum of Art, Lawrence Nichols. ... Catalogue: Royal Academy Publications ; Beatrice Gullström [and others]."--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 213 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-208) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781905711741 (RA hardback) : 9781907533532 (Toledo paperback) 1907533532 (Toledo paperback) 9781907533525 (Toledo hardback) 1907533524 (Toledo hardback) 9781905711758 (RA paperback) 1905711751 (RA paperback) 1905711743 (RA hardback) |
| Index Number: | ND553 |
| CLC: | J233(565)-28 |
| Call Number: | J233(565)-28/M275 |
| Contents: |
Manet : portraying life, themes and variations / Théophile Gautier, militant of modernity / Manet at the intersection of portraits and personalities / 'L'Espirit de l'atelier ' : Manet's late portraits of women, 1878-1883 / Manet and Renoir : an unexamined dialogue / Manet and Hals : two geniuses, one vision / Catalogue plates / The artist and his family ; Artists ; Men of letters and figures of the stage ; The status portrait ; Models -- Chronology / Catalogue entries / |