{"product_id":"manet-and-modern-beauty-the-artists-last-years-hardcover","title":"Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott Allan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEmily A. Beeny\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGloria Groom\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stunning examination of the last years of  douard Manet's life and career is the first book to explore the transformation of his style and subject matter in the 1870s and early 1880s. The name Manet evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian caf s. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet's elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist's unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting \u003ci\u003eJeanne (Spring)\u003c\/i\u003e, a selection of the artist's correspondence, a chronology, and more, \u003ci\u003eManet and Modern Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist's oeuvre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume is published to accompany exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago May 26 to September 8, 2019 and the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center October 8, 2019, to January 12, 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Allan is associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and coauthor, with Édouard Kopp, of \u003ci\u003eUnruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau\u003c\/i\u003e (Getty Publications, 2016). Emily A. Beeny, former associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, is curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gloria Groom, chair of European painting and sculpture and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, is a renowned scholar of late nineteenth-century French painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 11.7 x 10.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770835534112,"sku":"9781606066041","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/77e65bca5e968f0375ed88d81c436099.webp?v=1780379119","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/manet-and-modern-beauty-the-artists-last-years-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}