Description: Manet's paintings were considered immoral by his Parisian contemporaries, but he continued to forge his own path, and was eventually acknowledged as a great painter by not only the bourgeoisie but posterity. This biography is a portrait...
Synopsis Manet's paintings were considered immoral by his Parisian contemporaries, but he continued to forge his own path, and was eventually acknowledged as a great painter by not only the bourgeoisie but posterity. This biography is a portrait of his determined, contradictory life.
Details
Publication Date:
1996-03-01
Size
Length:
505 pages
Height:
9.5 in
Width:
6.5 in
Thickness:
1.8 in
Weight:
30.4 oz
Publisher's Note The first biography of Impressionist master Edouard Manet written in English and the first to focus on how the painter's complicated personal life shaped his art.
Industry Reviews "...a lively, painstakingly researched biography [which]...paints a portrait of the artist and his surrounding in the manner of a still life....Brombert succinctly examines Manet's artistic development and the mostly unsympathetic public response to his original yet straightforward kind of realism." ARTnews - Barbara MacAdam (01/19/1997)