Manet
Subtitle: portraying life
Contributors: Stevens, Mary Anne; Toledo Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher: Toledo Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toledo; London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781907533532; 9781907533525; 9781905711758; 9781905711741
Subjects: Portrait painting; French Painting; Exhibitions
Other titles: Portraying life
Description: "Depicting the Paris of his day, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) captured the nineteenth-century urban experience, legitimizing 'modern life' as an artistic subject. His detached, frank mode of looking and his subversive handling of both paint and subject-matter shocked his contemporaries, and eventually established his reputation as the father of modern painting. This remarkable book explores Manet's portraiture, a significant yet often neglected aspect of his work, including examples from throughout his career. Leading authorities provide a thorough review of the artist's stylistic evolution, considering the influence of seventeenth-century Dutch painters, parallels with the work of Renoir and links with early photography. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, works on paper, and photographs of models and sitters, this landmark study throws new light in the quintessential painter of modernity."--P. [2] of cover.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2012-Jan. 1, 2013, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Jan. 26-Apr. 14, 2013.

"Exhibition curators: Royal Academy of Arts, Mary Anne Stevens assisted by Sarah Lea ; Toledo Museum of Art, Lawrence Nichols. ... Catalogue: Royal Academy Publications ; Beatrice Gullström ... [et al.]."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Manet : portraying life, themes and variations  -- Maryanne Stevens; title: Théophile Gautier, militant of modernity  -- Stéphane Guégan; title: Manet at the intersection of portraits and personalities  -- Carol M. Armstrong; title: 'L'Espirit de l'atelier ' : Manet's late portraits of women, 1878-1883  -- Leah Lehmbeck; title: Manet and Renoir : an unexamined dialogue  -- Colin B. Bailey; title: Manet and Hals : two geniuses, one vision  -- Lawrence W. Nichols; title: Catalogue plates  -- with section introductions by Maryanne Stevens.; title: The artist and his family ;; title: Artists ;; title: Men of letters and figures of the stage ;; title: The status portrait ;; title: Models --; title: Chronology  -- Sarah Lea; title: Catalogue entries -- Maryanne Stevens, Leah Lehmbeck.