Modernity and modernism : French painting in the nineteenth century /
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, in association with the Open University, 1993. |
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| Description: | 297 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern art--practices and debates |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1411535 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Briony Fer. What is modern? Invisible pictures: visual representation and language. The modern in formation. The spectator. The artist. The modern in fragments. After modernity?
- Ch. 1. Modern Practices of Art and Modernity / Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina. Introduction: art as a social practice. Art practice and politics in the nineteenth-century art world. Courbet: representing the country to the town. Modernity, realism and the history of art: Manet's Old Musician. The problem of official tolerance. Modernization: spectacle and irony. Modernity: the social and the aesthetic
- Ch. 2. Impressionism, Modernism and Originality / Charles Harrison. Impression and Impressionism. 'Significant form'. Depth, flatness and self-criticism. Monet at La Grenouillere. Pissarro. Painting and human content. Cezanne. Monet's Nympheas
- Ch. 3. Gender and Representation / Tamar Garb. Artists. Painting as a woman. The historical viewer.
