Manet, portraying life
Title:
Manet, portraying life
Author:
Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883
ISBN:
9781905711741
Publication Information:
London : Royal Academy of Arts, c2012
Physical Description:
213 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-208) and index.
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Manet: portraying life', Toledo Museum of Art, 4 October 2012-1 January 2013; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January-14 April 2013"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
"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."--Page 2 of cover.
Subject:
| Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883 -- Exhibitions |
| Portrait painting, French -- 19th century -- Exhibition |
| Human beings in art -- Exhibitions |
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."--Page 2 of cover.