Manet'S Reichshoffen Revealed - Couverture souple

Collectif

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903470773 ISBN 13 : 9781903470770

Editeur : Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Manet's well-known painting in the National Gallery London of a café-concert a kind of cabaret performance and musicmaking that was the latest fashion in Paris of the 1870s has a peculiar history. The painter initially planned an ambitious canvas with which he grew dissatisfied, then cut it in two, one half being the painting in the National Gallery and the other half now in Winterthur in Switzerland. He repainted both fragments to make each work as a picture in their own right, but modern technology has discovered and reconstructed the original greater work. New research has also identified the café, the Reichshoffen, and even the Folies-Bergère performance that is advertised on a poster represented in the picture. This study of a pivotal work in the troubled painter's oeuvre reveals his pioneering genius and the modernity of his search to capture a distillation of life in his own time through disconcertingly direct brushstrokes. The book discusses and illustrates related drawings and other paintings on the same theme, which would culminate a mere three or four years later in the Bar in the Folies-Bergère in the Courtauld Gallery, London. Without the experimentation, false paths and new discoveries of the Reichshoffen he would never have painted that masterpiece.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Essays by Juliet Wilson-Bareau and Malcolm Park. Edited by Maria Reinhard-Felice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1903470773
• ISBN 13: 9781903470770
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96