Author: MANET, ÉDOUARD (1832-1883)
Title: Manet: portraying life
Description: Toledo London New York: Toledo Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams. Inc 2012. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 213 p.: col. ill.; 27 cm. Other titles; Portraits. Selections. Portraying life. Notes; Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art. Oct. 4. 2012-Jan. 1. 2013. and the Royal Academy of Arts. London. Jan. 26-Apr. 14. 2013. 'Exhibition curators: Royal Academy of Arts. Mary Anne Stevens assisted by Sarah Lea; Toledo Museum of Art. Lawrence Nichols. Catalogue: Royal Academy Publications ; Beatrice Gullström. [et al.].' -- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-208) and index. Contents; Manet: portraying life. themes and variations / Maryanne Stevens -- Théophile Gautier. militant of modernity / Stéphane Guégan -- Manet at the intersection of portraits and personalities / Carol M. Armstrong -- 'L'Espirit de l'atelier ': Manet's late portraits of women. 1878-1883 / Leah Lehmbeck -- Manet and Renoir : an unexamined dialogue / Colin B. Bailey -- Manet and Hals: two geniuses. one vision / Lawrence W. Nichols -- Catalogue plates / with section introductions by Maryanne Stevens. The artist and his family; Artists; Men of letters and figures of the stage; The status portrait; Models -- Chronology / Sarah Lea -- Catalogue entries / Maryanne Stevens. Leah Lehmbeck. Summary; 'Depicting the Paris of his day. Edouard Manet (1832-1883) captured the nineteenth-century urban experience. legitimizing 'modern life' as an artistic subject. His detached. frank mode of looking and his subversive handling of both paint and subject-matter shocked his contemporaries. and eventually established his reputation as the father of modern painting. This remarkable book explores Manet's portraiture. a significant yet often neglected aspect of his work. including examples from throughout his career. Leading authorities provide a thorough review of the artist's stylistic evolution. considering the influence of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. parallels with the work of Renoir and links with early photography. Lavishly illustrated with paintings. works on paper. and photographs of models and sitters. this landmark study throws new light in the quintessential painter of modernity.' --P. [2] of cover. Subjects; Manet. Édouard 1832-1883 - Exhibitions. Manet. Édouard 1832-1883 - Studies. Painting. French - 19th century - Exhibitions. Portrait painting - France - 19th century - Exhibitions. Human beings in art - Exhibitions. Portraits. French - 19th century. Portraits - France. Paintings - [19th Century - France]. Impressionism; Individual artists. Post-Impressionism. ART / Individual Artists / General. ART / History / General. ART / European. ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits. Weight in Kg appr.:

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