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Édouard Manet: The Great Works - Hardcover

Galitz, Kathryn Calley

 
9780847876211: Édouard Manet: The Great Works

Synopsis

A handsome new volume devoted to the most important works by Manet, a pivotal figure in Impressionism and widely considered the first of the modern artists.

With over 100 seminal paintings, this book celebrates the artist who bridged the transition from Realism to Impressionism and is seen as giving rise to Modernism.

Combining painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, much of Manet’s work documented daily life in Paris, depicting scenes ranging from the recently built boulevards with their sidewalk cafes, industrial marvels such as the railways, and pleasure grounds ranging from newly landscaped parks to horse racing. He also painted provocative scenes of the demimonde in popular bars and cabarets.

Included here are popular and iconic works such as Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, with its shocking juxtaposition of a nude woman amid fully dressed men, and Olympia, Manet’s modern reworking of Titian’s Venus of Urbino that Parisian society initially rejected as scandalous.

Little has been published on Manet recently, so this comprehensive survey is long overdue. His bold style, muscular brushwork, frank subject matter, and compositions that pushed boundaries and confronted societal norms continue to influence and inspire today’s young artists.

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About the Author

Kathryn Calley Galitz is an art historian and bestselling author. A scholar of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French painting, she has published and lectured on a wide range of topics, including Impressionism. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she served on the curatorial team for international exhibitions on JMW Turner and Gustave Courbet. She has also held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She earned her Ph.D. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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A handsome new volume devoted to the most important works by Manet, a pivotal figure in Impressionism and widely considered the first of the modern artists.

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