FS: Books on Edouard Manet Art and Life
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1. Department of Art, Brown University. Kermit S. Champa. Edouard Manet and
the Execution of Maximilian.
2. Fried, Michael. Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s.
3. Hamilton, George Heard. Manet and His Critics.
4. Locke, Nancy. Manet and the Family Romance.
5. Reff, Theodore. Manet: Olympia. Art in Context Series.
Department of Art, Brown University. Kermit S. Champa.
Edouard Manet and the Execution of Maximilian.
Brown University, 1981.
First paperback edition. Very good quarto softcover with foldout front panel.
Wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers with some scuffing. Few small
tears to front free endpaper's fore-edge. Name of previous owner also on front
free endpaper. Pages are lightly browned but not brittle at all. 232 pages
with illustrations, notes to essays, 2 appendices (1. documentation, 2.
unexhibited related works), and selected bibliography. A work on an exhibit of
some of Manet's art, especially his painting, The Execution of Maximilian. The
essays are 1. Structure and Meaning in the Execution Series, 2. Manet and the
Image of War and Revolution: 1851-1871, 3. Manet's Execution and the Tradition
of the Histoire, 4. Metaphor and fact at Mid Century: Manet and Contemporary
History Painting, 5. Realism and Manet, 6. Napoleon III: The Fatal Foreign
Policy. $20.00.
Fried, Michael.
Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light
wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and
heel of the spine. Dj has some light wear along edges with some light scuffing
to panels. 647 pages with illustrations, endnotes, 4 appendices (1. Antonin
Proust, "L'Art d'Edouard Manet" [1901], 2. Edmond Duranty, "Ceux qui seront les
peintres" [1867], 3. Le Capitaine Pompilius [Carle Desnoyers], remarks on Manet
[1863], 4. Zacharie Astruc, remarks on Manet [1863]), and index. This work is
actually the third part of Michael Fried's examination of the origins of
pictorial modernism and focuses on the painting and style of Edouard Manet.
$45.00.
Hamilton, George Heard.
Manet and His Critics.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
1st edition. Good hardcover without dust jacket. Wear to edges of the boards
with bumping to the head and heel of the spine, and light scuffing to covers.
Pages are lightly yellowed at the edges. Name of previous owner written on
front free endpaper and small bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. 295
pages with 39 illustrations at the end of text, footnotes, bibliographical
notes, index of paintings by Manet, and general index. An excellent book on
the famous French Impressinist painter, Edouard Manet, and the criticisms made
of him and his art during the later half of the nineteenth century. $30.00.
Locke, Nancy.
Manet and the Family Romance.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light
wear to edges of the boards. Dj has some light wear to edges and minor
scuffing to the covers. 224 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography,
and index. A Freudian examination of Edouard Manet's realationship with his
family, his art, and the place the family in his work. $25.00.
Reff, Theodore.
Manet: Olympia. Art in Context Series.
Penguin Books Ltd, 1976.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Very
light wear along the edges of the boards with a light white streak on the back
panel's lower edge and some minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine.
Dj has light wear and rubbing to edges with some minor scuffing to the covers.
Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. 132 pages with illustrations,
historical table, endnotes, and index. An excellent study of Edouard Manet's
famous painting Olympia. $30.00.
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