| Description |
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Manet and the execution of Maximilian / John Elderfield -- Introduction : remembering Queretaro -- I Art of intervention -- Repression in France; reform in Mexico -- French intervention; Manet's response -- Eagles in Mexico; angels in France 43 -- The road to Queretaro -- II Resonance of execution -- First impressions : the Boston painting -- Past reminders -- The report of the present -- Time, space, and narration -- III Sense of ending -- The memory of the present : the London painting -- Changing places : the lithograph and the Copenhagen painting -- The well-known end : the Mannheim painting -- The time of the execution -- Witnessing the execution |
| Notes |
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Manet and the execution of Maximilian at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 5, 2006-January 29, 2007"--t.p. verso |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 -- Exhibitions.
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Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883. Execution of the Emperor Maximilian.
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Painting, French -- 19th century.
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Violence in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| LC no. |
2006931860 |
| ISBN |
0870704230 paperback |
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