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Manet's Modernism or the Face of Painting in the 1860s (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Manet's Modernism or the Face of Painting in the 1860s (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Manet's Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s is the
culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring
the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Building on his
earlier studies of the central antitheatrical tradition within
Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment French painting, Fried argues
that previous accounts of Edouard Manet as the first modernist
painter are based on a simplistic reading of the situation Manet
inherited and, partly as a result, fail to grasp the specificity,
complexity, and ambition - also the deeply problematic nature - of
his epochal paintings of the 1860s. By placing the painter squarely
within his generation (along with Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse
Legros, and James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are treated at
length) as well as in the context of the art-critical discourse of
his time, Fried transforms our sense of Manet's artistic project.
Instead of the usual emphasis on flatness and visuality, Fried
focuses on aspects of Manet's work that have either been minimized
or ignored: his repeated allusions to Old Master sources, his
desire for "universality" as regards both national schools and
individual genres, his efforts to annul the absorptive basis of the
modern French tradition, his invention of a sort of
portrait-tableau, above all his pursuit of facingness and
strikingness as means of reconstructing the relationship between
painting and beholder. The result is an entirely new understanding
not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the way
in which the Impressionist simplification of Manet's achievement
had determined subsequent accounts of pictorial modernism down to
the present. Like Fried's previousbooks, Manet's Modernism is a
milestone in the historiography of modern art.
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