Manet and Modern Beauty - The Artist's Last Years

Scott Allan (Curatore)

Emily A. Beeny (Curatore)

Getty Trust Publications, 2019

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.

• Curatore: Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny
• Editore: Getty Trust Publications
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 400 p.
• Dimensioni: 295 x 255 mm
• Peso: 2502 gr.
• EAN: 9781606066041

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