Item Number: 136047 Title: Looking at MANET : Writings on Manet by Emile Zola Author: Zola, Emile ; Robert Lethbridge Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781843680901 Description: London: Pallas Athene, 2013. 15cm., pbk., 144pp., 49 color illus. Summary: No one has written better on Manet than his friend Emile Zola, nor explained more clearly how modern art came into being through Manet’s genius. This volume collects all of Zola’s significant writings on Manet, from his passionate defence of the iconoclastic young painter to the essay written for the memorial exhibition after Manet’s untimely death. Manet’s career was surrounded by controversy almost from the very start. The hard-edged technique of his early works was not what Salon audiences expected, and when he started painting subjects as uncompromising as the unclothed picknicker in the Déjeuner sur l’herbe or the aggressively naked young courtesan in Olympia, with her suggestive cat, Paris was outraged. Such scandal was grist to the mill of his friend, the great Realist novelist Emile Zola. Zola’s vigorous polemic in Manet’s defence is justly famous as one of the finest writings on art of the 19th century. Manet thanked Zola by painting his portrait, which the novelist commemorated in a further essay; and when Manet died at the early age of 51, Zola wrote a moving summation of his life’s work. All these writings are included in this volume, which is introduced by the Zola specialist Robert Lethbridge. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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