On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne

Author:   Richard R. Brettell
Publisher:   Getty Trust Publications
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9781606066065


Pages:   103
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne


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A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne. As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern beauty head-on. This is not a study of aesthetic philosophy, but rather a richly contextualized look at the ambitions of specific artists and artworks at a particular time and place.   Brettell shapes his manifesto around three masterworks from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring), Paul Gauguin’s Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), and Paul Cézanne’s Young Italian Woman at a Table. The provocative discussion reveals how each of these exceptional paintings, though depicting very different subjects—a fashionable actress, a preserved head, and a weary working woman—enacts a revolutionary, yet enduring, icon of beauty.  

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Author:   Richard R. Brettell
Publisher:   Getty Trust Publications
Imprint:   Getty Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781606066065


ISBN 10:   1606066064
Pages:   103
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. --Alexander Adams Art An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a cliched phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing. --Hyperallergic


On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. --Alexander Adams Art


Brettell's skill at leading the viewer through formal as well as art historical details of certain paintings can be eye-opening to both novice students of art appreciation as well as art historians and curators, leading them to a lifetime of aesthetic pleasure. --Caroline Boyle-Turner H-France An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a cliched phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing. -- Hyperallergic On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. -- Alexander Adams Art


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Richard R. Brettell, the founding director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and the Margaret McDermott Chair of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, passed away in 2020.

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