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 interpretation. This book offers six different readings of the painting. Based on new ideas about its context, production, meaning, and reception, these essays, written specially for this volume by the leading scholars of French modern art, incorporate close examinations of its radical style and novel subject, relevant historical developments and archival material, as well as biographical evidence that prompts psychological inquiries. Shedding new light on the artist and the touchstone work of modernism, this title also introduces readers to current methodologies in art history and to the multiple ways that this complex painting can be framed.
Monet’s famous series paintings?the haystacks, poplars, and Rouen Cathedral that he painted in the 1890s?have long been seen as the supreme realization of his interest in light, color and fleeting mom
In the late 1880s, Theodore Robinson was among a group of American painters who visited the small French village of Giverny, where Claude Monet had settled in 1883. One of the few Americans to have di
Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced both traditional and modern masters. This volume catalogues 130 nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings that are now p
With many never-before-published photographs taken by the artist, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and films, this volume offers an unparalleled examination of Pablo Picasso’s relat
