Edouard Manet
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This paper aims to challenge and complicate the increasingly ossified understanding of the influence of Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life over Manet's art in art historical scholarship. It does so by first, offering an exposition of... more
In later nineteenth century France, moralizing discourse separated women into two categories: la femme honnête and fille publique or the moral and immoral woman. Writers of the time encouraged the honest or respectable lady to spend her... more
This essay will explore the ways in which the modern city may make visible those women alienated from regular society. Their bohemian existence in the urban underbelly presents an interesting opportunity for artists to examine female... more
In considering any form of artistic expression, we must address the question of production: “Why does this work look the way it does?” A useful answer often requires an aggressive contextual inquiry. This is especially true of prints... more
The paper aspires to contribute to contemporary attempts to think theology in a new materialist sense with a figure of thought found in Foucault’s analysis of Edouard Manet. It is a figure of thought that suggests an immanent and material... more
409 pages, 98 color illustrations and 97 ink drawings. Available in paperback and hardback at Amazon. e-book at Peter Lang Publishing: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4331-3959-8 "Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art" is a student... more
Jeff Wall describes his photograph Picture for Women (1979) as a 'remake' of Édouard Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, (1882). The motif of the mirror reflection is fundamental to both artworks and foregrounds mutual concerns... more
Download the sample chapter, "Gothic Paris: Notre-Dame and the Île de la Cité," from www.mayspangler.com. The Teacher Manual e-book (753 pp., 18 b/w ill., 59 colored ill.) for “Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art” is available for... more
This BA dissertation is a discussion around the meaning behind Edouard Manet's 'Bar at the Folies-Bergère'. I explore the work as an allegory of illusion; meaning there is more than what meets the eye in the painting. Manet has contrived... more
An undergraduate essay exploring the role of the Flaneur Artist in French art between 1850 and 1920.
These are the table of contents and the introduction of the PhD thesis that I defended in may 29, 2015. The thesis focuses on the fortune of interior scenes in the 19th century French visual culture. Popular images of the July Monarchy... more
A study of symbolist art and literature connecting these aesthetic phenomena to some theoretical sciences of the late nineteenth century (logic, mathematics) which were also particularly concerned with the studying their means of... more
This article explores the development of a singular painting by Russia’s most famous realist painter, Il’ia Repin. First exhibited under the title Un café du boulevard, the work was conceived during Repin’s stay in Paris from 1873-75.... more
Il saggio - attraverso l'analisi e l'incrocio delle fonti, anche inedite - ricostruisce la storia e la fisionomia della sezione francese della prima mostra della Secessione romana del 1913, al fine di riflettere su alcuni aspetti della... more
History remembers Édouard Manet as a master who emerged complete from the rib of Gustave Courbet. But Manet tried to cut to the chase of greatness well before that legacy took hold. Early in his own career, Manet experimented with the... more
This study discusses Edouard Manet's 1849 voyage to Brazil, presents evidence to connect this experience to his body of work and suggests new keys to old mysteries. A few contemporaries noted Brazil's impact on Manet's artistic vision but... more
This essay aims to question the "influence" of Charles Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life on the work of Édouard Manet within the context of art history. It does so first by exploring how it is that the 1863 text became prioritized... more
Les tableaux présentés dans 'L’Œuvre' (1886) de Zola ont été maintes fois commentés. Cependant l’évolution artistique du personnage principal, Claude Lantier, reste peu explorée. En effet le personnage de Zola... more
Des Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard, cet article s'attache à considérer le cinématographe d'un point de vue proustien où il s'agit de retrouver un monde perdu (première partie).
Dans l'introduction de son article sur La Baigneuse de Courbet, pendant le Salon de 1853, Paul de Saint-Victor fait du réalisme « une épizootie ». Le mot est emblématique : à la fois parce que le motif animal est prégnant dans les toiles,... more
Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
22 August - 10 December 2017
22 August - 10 December 2017
Manet painted Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers in 1864 and then exhibited the painting with the now infamous Olympia at the 1865 Salon. Like Olympia, the painting was disparaged for its use of recognizable French lower class models and... more
Al hilo de la exposición Metapintura: un viaje a la idea del arte, celebrada recientemente en el Museo del Prado, se plantea una aproximación a la parodia como recurso metapictórico en Velázquez y su proyección moderna en la obra de Manet.
Édouard Manet is commonly associated with the beginnings of french modernism and impressionist art – the unique themes and confusing sujets of his extensive œuvre are still being discussed to this day, with interpretations ranging from... more