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The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition

AvT. J. Clark

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

432 kr

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Berthe 1841-1895 Morisot - The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot With Her Family and Her Friends: Manet, Puvis De Chavannes, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Mallarmé, Inbunden

The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot With Her Family and Her Friends: Manet, Puvis De Chavannes, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Mallarmé

AvBerthe 1841-1895 Morisot

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

489 kr

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Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat

AvBeth Archer Brombert

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

297 kr

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Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet

An Adventure in Multiculturalism

AvPhyllis Zatlin

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

589 kr

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Despite Eduardo Manet's impressive accomplishments extending over half a century, this extraordinarily talented Cuban-French author remains relatively unknown in the United States. Phyllis Zatlin's book is the first to examine the multifaceted career of this dynamic bilingual writer. Playwright and novelist, theater and film director, Eduardo Manet (b. 1930) has been a major participant in the cultural worlds of both Cuba and France. His works have been internationally acclaimed: he has been nominated for the Prix Goncourt and was awarded a special Goncourt youth prize, and his novels and plays have been translated into twenty-one languages. Manet's work, however, has often been overlooked by both French and Spanish-American critics because of his unique position as a Latin American writing in French. Zatlin sets out to correct this oversight by offering a detailed analysis of Manet's many genres and themes. She begins with his work in Cuba, from his youthful poetry and plays to the films he directed in revolutionary Cuba. She then examines his seven full-length novels, all written in French but typically reflective of Cuban experience. Finally, Zatlin concludes her study by considering Manet's early plays of entrapment and enclosure and his later theater, defined by its metatheatrical and multicultural themes.Through the lenses of multiculturalism, postmodernism, metatheater, and farce, Zatlin provides a perceptive and comprehensive examination of this significant yet neglected figure. Zatlin's book will do the important work of introducing Manet to a North American audience.

Julie Manet

An Impressionist Heritage

AvMarianne Mathieu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

482 kr

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A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanying the first ever exhibition dedicated to Julie ManetThis title offers an exhaustive description of the life, work, and art collection of Julie Manet (1878–1966)—the only daughter of Berthe Morisot and the niece of Édouard Manet. The book will cover several aspects of the artist’s life and work, from early beginnings to her role as a collector with her husband Ernest Rouart, offering a new and richly detailed account of her role in the the arts. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this book constitutes a definitive account of the life of Julie Manet and her entourage that brings the whole world of the arts and culture in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Paris back to life. Distributed for Editions Hazan, ParisExhibition Schedule:Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris(October 19, 2021–March 20, 2022)

Manet and Morisot

AvEmily A. Beeny,Emily A. Beeny

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

673 kr

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An intimate exploration of an artistic friendship at the heart of the Impressionist movement Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a pioneer of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) was the sole female founding member of the Impressionist group. To each other, they were colleagues, friends, and—following Morisot’s marriage to Manet’s brother—family. Unfolding over a period of fifteen years, theirs was arguably the closest relationship between any two members of the Impressionist circle. Through collaboration, competition, and mutual collecting, each influenced the other’s work and, in the process, changed the course of modern art. The story of this relationship has most often been told through Manet’s magnificent portraits of Morisot, but the two artists’ connection was more than one between painter and muse. Exploring pairs and groups of related works, Manet and Morisot reveals that, while Morisot looked to Manet for inspiration during her early career, as Morisot’s work became more daring and garnered widespread acclaim, Manet began to follow her example, emulating her choice of subjects, her high-keyed colors, even her rapid, fluttering brushstrokes. Illustrated essays and entries challenge gendered perspectives in the Manet literature, while correspondence and a technical study invite readers into the two artists’ shared social circle and contrasting studio practices. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Exhibition Schedule: Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco(October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026) Cleveland Museum of Art(March 29–July 5, 2026)

Manet and His Critics

AvGeorge Heard Hamilton

Häftad, Engelska, 1969

315 kr

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Some of the criticism was bitter and some ridiculous (one critic wrote, "Manet, who ought not to have forgotten the panic caused by his black cat in Olympia, has borrowed a parrot from his friend Courbet and placed it on a perch beside a young lady in a pink dressing gown. These realists are capable of anything!"), some knowledgeable and some not. Mr. Hamilton's book assesses the range of these reactions, and the result is an illuminating study of the relation of Manet's painting and its principles to the contemporary practices of 19th-century French art.

Del 11 - Cambridge Studies in French

Mallarmé, Manet and Redon

Visual and Aural Signs and the Generation of Meaning

AvPenny Florence

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

534 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

This study, first published in 1986, is an examination of the many facets of Mallarmés relationship to the visual arts. Dr Florence proceeds by analysing Mallarmés writing on painting and literature, and its bearing on specific paintings, lithographs, and poems. These analyses reveal and define important common structures and innovatory developments, the coherence of which is masked by conventional histories of art. A new relationship is revealed between the word and the image, which has significant implications for an understanding of the self and the world in these texts. The book is particularly original in two respects: first, it shows how developments in verbal and visual innovation are interdependent in Mallarmés work; second, it integrates hitherto discrete traditions of the avant-garde in painting to present a new perspective on the history of modernism.

Chasing Manet

AvElizabeth Swados

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

272 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

During a weekend retreat sponsored by two female rabbis the atmosphere in the countrylog cabin evolves from shyness and contempt into a tell-all session among adolescent Jewishgirls from all types of families and backgrounds. Stories and songs transcend stereotypesto fi nd individuality heart and humor and to touch on sensitive issues such as pressure self-esteem the fast pace of this decade and what it means to be a girl - not just a Jewishgirl - in modern society. Meet the loner with the infl atable mattress the rich girl the observantyoung woman with the gay brother the anarchist the all-too-mature teen. and anintriguing mix of other vivid personalities. Songs range from contemporary to pop tunesto upbeat numbers based on religious liturgy all by the author of Runaways The Red Sneaks and other challenging musicals for young casts.

Manet

A Model Family

AvDiana Seave Greenwald

E-bok

Engelska, 2024

472 kr

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A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet’s family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her son, born out of wedlock, may have been Édouard’s, his father’s, or another man’s. For all its complexities, Manet’s family fueled his creativity. They were his most frequent models, and supported him emotionally and financially. Manet: A Model Family is an innovative new exploration of the largely neglected story of the importance of Manet’s family to his art.Presenting new research on works in which Manet depicted family members, Manet: A Model Family shows how an understanding of the artist’s family sheds crucial light on his artistic career. Manet’s mother, wife, stepson, and other relatives—including his sister-in-law, the painter Berthe Morisot—are given long overdue recognition for their roles in Manet’s life and work. Leading scholars present technical and archival analysis, including redating Madame Auguste Manet, an important, newly conserved painting of Manet’s mother. In an essay inspired by that canvas, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Hilton Als reconsiders Manet’s formative relationship with his mother and his bourgeois Parisian roots.With its original account of Manet’s domestic relationships and personal life, Manet: A Model Family humanizes the artist and his contributions to the birth of modernism.Published in association with the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumExhibition ScheduleIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonOctober 10, 2024–January 20, 2025

Manet

A Model Family

AvDiana Seave Greenwald

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

432 kr

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A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet’s family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her son, born out of wedlock, may have been Édouard’s, his father’s, or another man’s. For all its complexities, Manet’s family fueled his creativity. They were his most frequent models, and supported him emotionally and financially. Manet: A Model Family is an innovative new exploration of the largely neglected story of the importance of Manet’s family to his art.Presenting new research on works in which Manet depicted family members, Manet: A Model Family shows how an understanding of the artist’s family sheds crucial light on his artistic career. Manet’s mother, wife, stepson, and other relatives—including his sister-in-law, the painter Berthe Morisot—are given long overdue recognition for their roles in Manet’s life and work. Leading scholars present technical and archival analysis, including redating Madame Auguste Manet, an important, newly conserved painting of Manet’s mother. In an essay inspired by that canvas, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Hilton Als reconsiders Manet’s formative relationship with his mother and his bourgeois Parisian roots.With its original account of Manet’s domestic relationships and personal life, Manet: A Model Family humanizes the artist and his contributions to the birth of modernism.Published in association with the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumExhibition ScheduleIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonOctober 10, 2024–January 20, 2025

Degas, Manet, Morisot

The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 12

AvPaul Valéry

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

366 kr

Kommande

A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoir, and where Degas and Renoir were still familiar guests. Degas cherished Valéry as a friend and the writer was one of the few who remained faithful to the old painter through his troubled last years. This book presents the whole of Valéry’s book on Degas; essays on Manet, Morisot, Corot, and Daumier; a personal recollection of Renoir; and writings on sculpture, portraiture, and Italian painting.The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.

Degas, Manet, Morisot

The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 12

AvPaul Valéry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

796 kr

Kommande

A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoir, and where Degas and Renoir were still familiar guests. Degas cherished Valéry as a friend and the writer was one of the few who remained faithful to the old painter through his troubled last years. This book presents the whole of Valéry’s book on Degas; essays on Manet, Morisot, Corot, and Daumier; a personal recollection of Renoir; and writings on sculpture, portraiture, and Italian painting.The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.

You Are Not A Tulip In a Pot

AvNancy Manet

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

129 kr

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Manet

AvCatherine Dean

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

89 kr

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Edouard Manet (1832-83) was one of the greatest, as well as one of the most interesting, of nineteenth century French painters. Acute observation, an extraordinary skilful handling of paint and a feeling for exquisite harmonies of colour makes his work both vivid and enchanting. It is also of great significance in the story of European painting, since Manet, a pioneer in depicting modern life in a modern style, was a formative influence on the whole impressionist movement. Olympia and The Picnic are among the key works of the nineteenth century.These, and many other crucial points – among them Manet’s personality, with its many contradictions - are fully discussed by John Richardson in his introductory essay, an abridged version of the brilliant text which was widely admired when it was first published in 1958 and which started a full-scale revival of Manet studies.Richardson's classic text was first revised in 1982, with notes to the forty-eight colour plates by Kathleen Adler and comparative illustrations to emphasize the quality, variety and character of Manet’s work. This perfect introduction to the work of such an influential painter is now reissued in an attractive new design.

Del 4 - In the Picture with

In the Picture With Edouard Manet

AvIain Zaczek

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

159 kr

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This title looks at the life and works of Edouard Manet, including an examination of paintings such as Music in the Tuileries Gardens, Monet in his Floating Studio, Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Gare Saint-Lazare, Portrait of Emile Zola and The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil. It looks at the techniques and colour palette that Manet used in these works, encouraging readers to look more closely at the interesting elements of each painting. It also includes a timeline of his life, information on museums and galleries where his work is currently displayed and a chance for readers to use what they have learned to make their own painting in the style of Edouard Manet.

Manet: His Life and Work in 500 Images

AvNigel Rodgers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

181 kr

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This is an illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his greatest works. It is a lively but expert account of Edouard Manet, one of the greatest French artists, whose striking realism has led to him being called the first modern painter. It is a vivid biography explores his life and career, including his break with established institutions and his links with artistic pioneers such as Monet, Cezanne and Degas. It features an extensive gallery of all Manet's most important works, accompanied by an analysis of his aims, style and technique. It focuses on how Manet turned the focus of artistic interest back to real life and away from the conventions of academic art. It is superbly illustrated with 500 pictures covering his life and art, along with works by his main contemporaries, including Monet, Renoir and Gauguin. Born to a wealthy conservative family, Edouard Manet became one of art's greatest revolutionaries, hailed by the Impressionists as their 'king'. While such works as Olympia or Music in the Tuileries struck contemporaries as shockingly candid, he himself revered the Old Masters.Manet's was the first great painter of modern Paris, the artistic capital of the 19th century.The first half of the book details Manet's life and his role as leader of the Batignolles group that included Renoir, Cezanne and Degas. The second half is a wide-ranging gallery of his finest works. With a total of 500 illustrations, this book gives a superb overview of one of the world's greatest and most original artists.

Édouard Manet

The Great Works

AvKathryn Calley Galitz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

415 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

This is a richly illustrated new volume devoted to the most important works by Édouard Manet —a pivotal figure in the emergence of Impressionism and widely considered the first modern artist.With nearly one hundred seminal paintings, this publication celebrates the artist who paved the way for the Impressionist movement and the rise of modernism. Combining a radical technique with contemporary subjects, Manet’s groundbreaking works engage with modern Paris, depicting its new boulevards and fashionable parks and cafés along with a range of urban types, from ragpickers and prostitutes to barmaids and elegant Parisians.Included here are the artist’s iconic scenes of modern life such as Luncheon on the Grass, with its shocking juxtaposition of a female nude and a pair of fully dressed men, and Olympia, a modern reworking of Titian’s Renaissance masterpiece, Venus of Urbino, that scandalized Paris in the 1860s and established Manet as the leader of the avant-garde.This book also explores Manet’s artistic legacy in the work of subsequent generations of artists, from Cézanne and Picasso to contemporary artists including Nicole Eisenman.

Manet and the Execution of Maximilian

AvJohn Elderfield

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

172 kr

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Informatics and Society

The New Challenges

AvEnrique Gonzalez-Manet

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

604 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

In this book, Cuban scholar, journalist and author Gonzalez-Manet demystifies the information age. With his unique vision on technology, global politics, and social change, he provides readers with a critical analysis of new communications technologies and their largely unavoidable consequences. Whether the dazzling array of high-tech hardware and software are to benefit humanity or serve the needs of transnational corporations depends upon the social character of their application and the adoption of coherent policies concerning communications, culture and education. The author forcefully argues that much of the Third World lacks such policies and the results are devastating. Among other areas of exploration, he outlines the major characteristics of informatics in an age of global markets and transnational networks and, in the process, reflects on the politics of data flows, cultural integrity, and national sovereignty. Special attention is paid to the impact of computers on teaching and learning, as well as related trends in worldwide publishing. Several chapters focus specifically on Cuba's policies with regard to new communications technologies such as video and trends in Cuban film. This book builds on the author's previous work, expands the scope of reflection, and provides the reader with a lucid Third World perspective enriched by the urgency of the analysis and the substantial documentation of the argument.