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Value in Art - Manet and the Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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Value in Art - Manet and the Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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Art historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term "value"
in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art.
How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as,
respectively, "high in value" and "low in value"? Henry M. Sayre
traces the origin of this usage to one of art history's most famous
and racially charged paintings, Edouard Manet's Olympia. Art
critics once described light and dark in painting in terms of
musical metaphor-higher and lower tones, notes, and scales. Sayre
shows that it was Emile Zola who introduced the new "law of values"
in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of
Zola's essay and of several related paintings by Manet, Sayre
argues that Zola's usage of value was intentionally double coded-an
economic metaphor for the political economy of slavery. In Manet's
painting, Olympia and her maid represent objects of exchange, a
commentary on the French Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave
trade in the Americas. Expertly researched and argued, this bold
study reveals the extraordinary weight of history and politics that
Manet's painting bears. Locating the presence of slavery at
modernism's roots, Value in Art is a surprising and necessary
intervention in our understanding of art history.
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