Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years (Hardcover)

The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolours and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafe s. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet's elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist's unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting Jeanne (Spring), a selection of the artist's correspondence, a chronology, and more, 'Manet and Modern Beauty' brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist's oeuvre.

General

Imprint:	Getty Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
Editors:	Scott Allan • Emily A. Beeny • Gloria Groom
Dimensions:	295 x 255 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-60606-604-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-60606-604-8
Barcode:	9781606066041

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