Manet and the painters of contemporary life / Alan Krell.
1996
ND553.M3 K74 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
Manet and the painters of contemporary life / Alan Krell.
Author
Krell, Alan, 1949-
Cover Title
Manet
ISBN
9780500202890 (pbk.)
0500202893 (pbk.)
0500202893 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1996.
Language
English
Description
208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Call Number
ND553.M3 K74 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.4
Summary
There are some great painters whose influence is confined to the world of painting. Others, who through their art are effectively moral critics, challenge the society in which they live. Manet was one of these. Rejecting the traditional "histories" and "mythologies" that won official acclaim, he turned instead to the life of his own time.
Yet he did not ally himself with the other painters of contemporary life, the Impressionists, preferring to engage with a Realist tradition, and at the same time drawing on the art of the past - Raphael, Titian, Velazquez, Goya - to confront his own age. In this freshly researched study Alan Krell examines the artist's known intentions and the critical, sometimes bitterly hostile reception that he encountered.
He compares Manet to Impressionists like Monet, Degas and Morisot, and shows how the artist's progressive social views - on sexuality, on the position of women, on the family - were expressed through a style equally "modern," yet rooted in the European artistic tradition.
Yet he did not ally himself with the other painters of contemporary life, the Impressionists, preferring to engage with a Realist tradition, and at the same time drawing on the art of the past - Raphael, Titian, Velazquez, Goya - to confront his own age. In this freshly researched study Alan Krell examines the artist's known intentions and the critical, sometimes bitterly hostile reception that he encountered.
He compares Manet to Impressionists like Monet, Degas and Morisot, and shows how the artist's progressive social views - on sexuality, on the position of women, on the family - were expressed through a style equally "modern," yet rooted in the European artistic tradition.
Note
Yet he did not ally himself with the other painters of contemporary life, the Impressionists, preferring to engage with a Realist tradition, and at the same time drawing on the art of the past - Raphael, Titian, Velazquez, Goya - to confront his own age. In this freshly researched study Alan Krell examines the artist's known intentions and the critical, sometimes bitterly hostile reception that he encountered.
He compares Manet to Impressionists like Monet, Degas and Morisot, and shows how the artist's progressive social views - on sexuality, on the position of women, on the family - were expressed through a style equally "modern," yet rooted in the European artistic tradition.
He compares Manet to Impressionists like Monet, Degas and Morisot, and shows how the artist's progressive social views - on sexuality, on the position of women, on the family - were expressed through a style equally "modern," yet rooted in the European artistic tradition.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883.
Series
World of art.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1. 'But What a Scourge to Society Is a Realist Painter'
Ch. 2. 'Bathers, Bodies and Put-ons'
Ch. 3. 'A Parcel of Nude Flesh or a Bundle of Laundry'
Ch. 4. Manet, Zola and 'Le Jugement Public'
Ch. 5. 'That Subtle Feeling for Modern Life'
Ch. 6. Manet and the Impressionists in 1874
Ch. 7. Modern Paris, Modern Pleasures
Ch. 8. 'Dandy of Realism'.
Ch. 2. 'Bathers, Bodies and Put-ons'
Ch. 3. 'A Parcel of Nude Flesh or a Bundle of Laundry'
Ch. 4. Manet, Zola and 'Le Jugement Public'
Ch. 5. 'That Subtle Feeling for Modern Life'
Ch. 6. Manet and the Impressionists in 1874
Ch. 7. Modern Paris, Modern Pleasures
Ch. 8. 'Dandy of Realism'.