Research Catalog

Title

Manet and modern beauty : the artist's last years / edited by Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, Gloria Groom ; essays by Scott Allan, Bridget Alsdorf, Carol Armstrong, Emily A. Beeny, Helen Burnham, Gloria Groom, Leah Lehmbeck, Devi Ormond and Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Samuel Rodary.

Publication

• Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Allan, Scott, 1975-
• Beeny, Emily A.
• Groom, Gloria Lynn
• Alsdorf, Bridget
• Armstrong, Carol M.
• Burnham, Helen
• Lehmbeck, Leah
• Ormond, Devi
• Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883.
• J. Paul Getty Museum, organizer, host institution, issuing body
• Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution

Description

xv, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

• "An examination of the last years of the artist Édouard Manet's life and work"--Provided by publisher.
• "The name Manet evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafés. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet's elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist's unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting Jeanne (Spring), a selection of the artist's correspondence, a chronology, and more, Manet and Modern Beauty brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist's oeuvre. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago May 26 to September 8, 2019, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center October 8, 2019, to January 12, 2020."--from publisher

Subject

• Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 > Exhibitions
• Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 > Criticism and interpretation
• Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years, on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 26 to September 8, 2019, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from October 8, 2019, to January 12, 2020."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Timothy Potts and James Rondeau -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Introduction: beauty, fashion, and happiness / Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Groom -- Chronology -- Faux frere: Manet and the Salon, 1879-1882 / Scott Allan -- "The type of an era": Manet and the Parisienne / Helen Burnham -- All the world's a stage: Manet's images of model-actresses / Leah Lehmbeck -- Foregrounding Manet's backgrounds / Gloria Groom -- Manet and the eighteenth century / Emily A. Beeny -- Manet's little nothings / Carol Armstrong -- Manet's fleurs du mal / Bridget Alsdorf -- The making of a Parisienne: Manet's methods and materials / Devi Ormond and Catherine Schmidt Patterson with Douglas MacLennan and Nathan Daly -- Edouard Manet: a selection of letters, 1878-1883 / Samuel Rodary -- Plates -- References cited -- Exhibitions cited -- Contributors -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Call Number

JQF 19-1136

ISBN

• 9781606066041
• 1606066048

LCCN

2018050529

OCLC

1061863970

Title

Manet and modern beauty : the artist's last years / edited by Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, Gloria Groom ; essays by Scott Allan, Bridget Alsdorf, Carol Armstrong, Emily A. Beeny, Helen Burnham, Gloria Groom, Leah Lehmbeck, Devi Ormond and Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Samuel Rodary.

Publisher

Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Allan, Scott, 1975- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Beeny, Emily A., editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Groom, Gloria Lynn, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Alsdorf, Bridget, writer of supplementary textual content.

Armstrong, Carol M., writer of supplementary textual content.

Burnham, Helen, writer of supplementary textual content.

Lehmbeck, Leah, writer of supplementary textual content.

Ormond, Devi, writer of supplementary textual content.

Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883. Works. Selections (2019)

J. Paul Getty Museum, organizer, host institution, issuing body.

Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-1136