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"Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be to…
"'This book, ' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Realism is a magnificent work and its very first sentence brings us up against the qualities of mind of its author, qualiti…
"Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provi…
This fascinating book focuses on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent acquisition, The "Kearsarge" At Boulogne, by Edouard Manet(1832-1883). It contains essays about the Metropolitan's picture and five additional seascapes painted by Manet in Boulogne during the summer of 186…
1. Crossing thresholds : Baudelaire and Whistler -- 2. The artist's studio : Courbet and Whistler -- 3. Voyage : Manet and Whistler -- 4. Holland and the modern interior : Degas and Whistler -- 5. Alliteration and ellipses : Monet, Mallarme, and Whistler -- 6. Seurat's butterfly…
Lacan, dernier propriétaire de L'Origine du monde de Courbet, aimait le tableau si fort qu'il ne pouvait le regarder. Alors il le cacha derrière un tableau anodin. Les Chinois l'appelaient la " vallée des roses " (attention aux épines!), les Perses " la source du miel " (attenti…