A Woman with No Clothes On

Main, V.R.

ISBN 10: 0953911977 / ISBN 13: 9780953911974

Edité par Delancey Press Ltd., London, 2008

A propos de cet article

First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked, with a small tear at the upper edge of the inner flap fold. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Woman with No Clothes On
• Éditeur: Delancey Press Ltd., London
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0953911977
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780953911974
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

In 1967 in a laboratory in the Louvre, a radiologist discovers a picture underneath Edouard Manet s Le déjeuner sur l herbe. The composition of the two pictures is the same, but the style is very different. Clearly, the canvas was painted over by someone other than Manet. Edouard Manet creates a scandal in the 19th century art world with his paintings Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia. In each of them, the naked model is an eighteen-year old Parisian Victorine Meurent. Critics ridicule the works, dismissing Victorine as a common prostitute. But, in a world utterly dominated by men, she harbours a secret ambition to become an artist. Victorine works in bars and tries to teach herself to paint. Throughout her sexual encounters, she retains a ruthless obsession with her ambition. The events of 1862 and 1863 are narrated by Manet and Victorine Meurent. The aristocratic Manet and the working class Victorine share a passion for art and a longing for success. Fuelled by jealousy, sexual tensions develop between them which are reflected in the painting Olympia. Main creates the characters and the atmosphere of 1860s Paris with a compelling simplicity that renders them authentic. Victorine s bitter struggle to emerge from her background contrasts sharply with the esoteric exchanges between Manet and his friend Baudelaire on the nature of modernism.

À propos de l?auteur

V Main graduated in English and Comparative Literature and has a PhD in Elizabethan drama from the Shakespeare Institute. She has worked as a journalist for the BBC and a lecturer at Nigerian and British universities, as well as in adult and further education colleges. She is married and has two daughters.