| Description |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Masterpieces of Western painting |
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Masterpieces of Western painting.
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| Contents |
Making sense of Edouard Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe / Paul Hayes Tucker -- Sex and the salon : defining art and immorality in 1863 / Anne McCauley -- Manet and the de-moralized viewer / John House -- To paint, to point, to pose : Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe / Carol Armstrong -- Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe as a family romance / Nancy Locke -- The fascination with this rendezvous does not diminish ... / Marcia Pointon |
| Summary |
"Edouard Manet's controversial painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe is one of the best-known images in French art. The subject of critical analysis for more than a century, it still defies singular interpretations. This book offers six different readings of the painting. Based on new ideas about its context, production, meaning, and reception, these essays, written specially for this volume by leading scholars of French modern art, incorporate close examinations of the picture's radical style and novel subject, relevant historical developments, and archival material, as well as biographical evidence that prompts psychological inquiries. Shedding new light on the artist and the touchstone work of modernism, Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" also introduces readers to current methodologies in art history and to the multiple ways that this complex painting can be framed."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index |
| Subject |
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883. Luncheon on the grass.
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| SUBJECT |
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883. Luncheon on the grass.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98074874
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| Subject |
Female nude in art.
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| Author |
Tucker, Paul Hayes, 1950-
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| LC no. |
97027062 |
| ISBN |
0521474663 hardback alkaline paper |
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0521479843 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780521474665 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780521479844 paperback alkaline paper |
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