Manet Degas

Author : Stephan Wolohojian,Ashley E. Dunn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397638

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Manet/Degas by Stephan Wolohojian,Ashley E. Dunn Pdf

Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.

Author : John Elderfield
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870704230

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Manet and the Execution of Maximilian by John Elderfield Pdf

Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximillian ISBN 0-87070-423-0 / 978-0-87070-423-9 Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 120 pgs / 35 color and 45 b&w. / U.S. $29.95 CDN $36.00 November / Nonfiction and Criticism

Author : Baltimore Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Impressionism (Art)
ISBN : UCSC:32106001408688

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Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt by Baltimore Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Rosary H. (O'Neill) Harzinski,Dr. Rory O'Neill Schmitt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439677162

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Edgar Degas in New Orleans by Rosary H. (O'Neill) Harzinski,Dr. Rory O'Neill Schmitt Pdf

The grit and grandeur of New Orleans helped give rise to an icon of French Impressionism. Edgar Degas's mother was from New Orleans and from the time he buried her, he pined for Louisiana. In 1872, when he arrived, he found New Orleans wracked with devastation. He struggled with the conflict of helping his family' bankrupt cotton business, while pursuing his passion to paint. Amidst this turmoil, blossomed a tragic friendship with his blind sister-in-law, his beautiful muse. Edgar nearly went mad when he discovered his brother had gone through all the family money, and was having an affair with his wife's best friend. This book rips open the divide between Edgar and his brother that kept them from speaking for ten years, and led Edgar to start a new direction in his work: Impressionism.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0151010765

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Impressionist Quartet by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

An exploration of the inner lives of four core mid-nineteenth-century impressionist artists portrays them as individuals and fellow conspirators dedicated to promoting a new way of seeing and representing the world.

Author : Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 9780870995194

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Degas by Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) Pdf

Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.

Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781509533930

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Manet by Pierre Bourdieu Pdf

What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of impressionism and the works of Manet. Bourdieu treats the paintings of Manet as so many challenges to the conservative academicism of the pompier painters, the populism of the Realists, the commercial eclecticism of genre painting, and even the 'Impressionists', showing that such a revolution is inseparable from the conditions that allow fields of cultural production to emerge. At a time when the Academy was in crisis and when the increase in the number of painters challenged the role of the state in defining artistic value, the break that Manet inaugurated revolutionised the aesthetic order. The new vision of the world that emerged from this upheaval still shapes our categories of perception and judgement today - the very categories that we use everday to understand the representations of the world and the world itself. This major work by one of the greatest sociologists of the last 50 years will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, art history and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a wide readership interested in art, in impressionism and in the works of Manet.

Author : Françoise Cachin
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870993596

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Manet by Françoise Cachin Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781904915515

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Impressionist Quartet by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

In this book, Jeffrey Meyers follows the lives of four Impressionist painters whose rebellious work was scorned by the critics and derided by their contemporaries. The French art establishment dismissed them altogether and at the time their sold for very little. Impressionist Quartet describes the relationships between these artists and how they struggle emotionally and intellectually to create a new way of seeing and representing the world.

Author : Marni Reva Kessler
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452962757

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Discomfort Food by Marni Reva Kessler Pdf

An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke At a time when chefs are celebrities and beautifully illustrated cookbooks, blogs, and Instagram posts make our mouths water, scholar Marni Reva Kessler trains her inquisitive eye on the depictions of food in nineteenth-century French art. Arguing that disjointed senses of anxiety, nostalgia, and melancholy underlie the superficial abundance in works by Manet, Degas, and others, Kessler shows how, in their images, food presented a spectrum of pleasure and unease associated with modern life. Utilizing close analysis and deep archival research, Kessler discovers the complex narratives behind such beloved works as Manet’s Fish (Still Life) and Antoine Vollon’s Internet-famous Mound of Butter. Kessler brings to these works an expansive historical review, creating interpretations rich in nuance and theoretical implications. She also transforms the traditional paradigm for study of images of edible subjects, showing that simple categorization as still life is not sufficient. Discomfort Food marks an important contribution to conversations about a fundamental theme that unites us as humans: food. Suggestive and accessible, it reveals the very personal, often uncomfortable feelings hiding within the relationship between ourselves and the representations of what we eat.

Author : Carol M. Armstrong
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Painting, French
ISBN : 0892367288

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Odd Man Out by Carol M. Armstrong Pdf

In Odd Man Out, Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon: he was a realist whom realists rejected; a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; a painter of modern life who was not a modernist; a member of the impressionist group who was no impressionist. Armstrong confronts these and other paradoxes by analyzing the critical vocabularies used to describe Degas's work. By reading several groups of the artist's images through the lens of a sequence of critical texts, Armstrong shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted. This is a reprint of the book first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1991.

Author : Lyutsiya Staub
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783772002137

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Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas by Lyutsiya Staub Pdf

This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth Robards (2008), Dancing for Degas (DFD) by Kathryn Wagner (2010) and The Painted Girls (TPG) by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013).

Author : Jacques Dufwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015008700448

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Winds from the East by Jacques Dufwa Pdf

Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780745428

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Nineteenth-Century Art by Laurie Schneider Adams Pdf

Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Rodin's The Thinker. Monet’s water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. However, at the time their avant-garde nature was the cause of much controversy. Professor Laurie Schneider Adams brings vividly to life the paintings, sculpture, photography and architecture of the period vividly with her infectious enthusiasm for art and detailed explorations of individual works. Offering fascinating biographical details and the relevant social, political and cultural context, Adams provides the reader with an understanding of both how revolutionary the works were at the time and of their enduring appeal.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781588392404

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Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kathryn Calley Galitz Pdf