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![]() | Manet's 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' (Masterpieces of Western Painting) by Paul Hayes Tucker (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780521474665 ISBN-10: 0-521-47466-3 ISBN-13: 9780521474665 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-47466-5 Hardcover 1998-02-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price | |
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Product Description Edouard Manet's controversial painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" is one of the best known images in French art. The subject of critical analysis for more than a century, it still defies singular interpretations. These essays, written specially for this volume by the leading scholars of French modern art, therefore offer six different readings of the painting, incorporating close examinations of its radical style and novel subject, relevant historical developments and archival material, as well as biographical evidence that prompts psychological inquiries. | ||
Book Description Edouard Manet's controversial painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is one of the best known images in French art. The subject of critical analysis for more than a century, it still defies singular interpretations. These essays, written specially for this volume by the leading scholars of French modern art, therefore offer six different readings of the painting, incorporating close examinations of its radical style and novel subject, relevant historical developments and archival material, as well as biographical evidence that prompts psychological inquiries. | ||