The Description for this book, Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawing: Selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits, will be forthcoming.

Eighteenth-Century French Life-Drawing: Selections from the Collection of Mathias Polakovits (Publications of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 10)

LEVINE, David

Rubin, James Henry

Reference

Princeton University Press

Realism and Social Vision in Courbet and Proudhon (Princeton Essays on the Arts)

The description for this book, Realism and Social Vision in Courbet and Proudhon, will be forthcoming.

Arts & Photography

Few artists have been so directly invoved in the events of their time as Gustave Courbert. Amid the social transformations of the mid-19th century, Courberts unconventional and stark paintings came to embody values with radical political implications.

Courbet A&I (Art and Ideas)

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

The 55 Series This is one of the most unique monograph series in the history of photography! The 55 Series represents the work of many of photography s most important figures. Each book contains 55 of the photographer s key works, presented chronologically and through them tells the photographer s own story. These books are small, but surprisingly rich in content and reproduction quality. They are a most economical way to bring the world of photography into your home. Each book is 128 pp. 6 1/4 x 5 3/4 , softbound.

Nadar: Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (55)

Individual Artists

A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's works, whose flattened, sometimes fragmented figures appear to exist absentmindedly in a world entirely lacking speech. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in a essay that shows Manet as we see him - naturally, in pictures that articulate their own purely visual terms. Manet's figural works, whether the early bohemian subjects or the elusive portraits and modern-life themes of the later 1860s and 1870s, depend on visual exchanges and confrontations, or patterns of gazes, not on narrative. The "aesthetics of silence" to be found in these works is poetically embodied in the displays of evocative flower-studies and other still-lifes that Manet worked at throughout his career. Incorporating insights into Manet's achievement, and into certain writings of three literary associates - Baudelaire, Zola and Stephane Mallarme - the book sets out to explain why Manet's paintings continue to fascinate and elude us more than a century after his death.

Manets Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets

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