Edouard
Manet: Images of Parisian Life (Pegasus Library)
by Hajo Duchting, Michael Robertson (Translator)
Hardcover - 128 pages (August 1997)
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Edouard
Manet: The Graphic Work: A Catalogue Raisonne
by Jean C. Harris, Joel M. Smith (Editor)
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Eyewitness:
Manet
by Patricia Wright
(Hardcover - May 2000)
Manet
: The Influence of the Modern (Discoveries)
by Francoise Cachin, Rachel Kaplan (Translator)
(Paperback - April 1995)
Edouard
Manet : Rebel in a Frock Coat
by Beth Archer Brombert
(Paperback - November 1997)
Manet
: The Still-Life Paintings
by Henri Loyrette, et al
The French artist Édouard Manet was delighted when a client who purchased
his painting of a bunch of asparagus paid more than the asking price. So
he sent a special thank-you--a tiny image of a single pale spear of the
prized vegetable. These and other lushly painted still lifes of flowers,
fruits, and other foodstuffs, isolated or in groups, form one of the most
beguiling aspects of Manet's output from the 1860s through the early '80s.
Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, the catalog for the exhibition at the
Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, through April 22, 2001, serves
as a pleasant introduction to the intimate late work of the great 19th-century
realist. With 106 color reproductions, including close-up details of brushwork,
the modestly scaled volume makes for a satisfying browse. The most deliciously
unexpected treats are the luminous watercolors of fruit, nuts, or flowers
that Manet interwove with his personal correspondence.
Earlier in Manet's career, still-life images played a supporting role
in figure paintings. Author George Mauner, professor emeritus of art history
at Pennsylvania State University, guides the reader to observe such details
as the cherry falling in midair in Young Man w ith Cherries. This fascination
with instantaneous effects would culminate 11 years later in the smoking
rifles of the Mexican troops in The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. Manet,
of course, was well aware of the tradition of still life as an invocation
of the senses and as a reminder of the fleeting nature of sensual pleasure
(and life itself). Mauner explains how this art-historical knowledge offers
clues to some of the artist's more enigmatic paintings. The quote-heavy,
name-dropping style of fellow essayist Henri Loyrette seems less attuned
to a general reader's interests. But the book's most grievous sin is one
of omission: the failure to include even the briefest biographical outline
of Manet's life and work. --Cathy Curtis - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 200 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x
9.35 x 9.41
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; (February 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0810943913
Manet
: A New Realism (Great Artists Series)
by David Spence
(Paperback - August 1997)
Manet
and the Painters of Contemporary Life (World of Art)
by Alan Krell, Edouard Manet
(Paperback - March 1996)
Manet
and the Family Romance
by Nancy Locke (Hardcover)
Manet's
Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe (Masterpieces in Western Painting)
by Paul Hayes Tucker (Editor)
(Paperback - April 1998)
Manet:
Le dejeuner sur l'herbe
by Edouard Manet, et al (Hardcover)
Manet
(Colour Library)
by John Richardson
(Paperback - October 1993)
The
Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Age of Manet and His Followers
by T. J. Clark (Preface)
Paperback - 396 pages Rev edition (October 1999) Princeton Univ Press
Manet's
Modernism : Or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s
by Michael Fried
Paperback - 648 pages (October 1998)
University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226262170
Manet
by Himself
by Juliet Wilson Bareall
A delightful tribute to an Impressionist who easily established himself
as a leading figure in the art world can be found in Manet By Himself.
. . . This is a book that enables us to take a fresh look at an artist
whose primary aim was to forget what he called 'artistic tricks of the
trade' in favor of painting and seeing things afresh. The Publisher
Hardcover - 320 pages (September 2001)
Book Sales; ISBN: 0785804293
The
Last Flowers of Manet
by Robert Gordon, Andrew Forge, Richard Howard (Translator)
Hardcover - 48 pages (March 1999) Abradale Press |
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Manet,
Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Juliet Wilson Bareau
Hardcover, 224 pages, Yale Univ Press, 1998
Edouard Manet
by Vivien Perutz
Hardcover (July 1993)
Bucknell Univ Press
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