Fellow Men: Fantin-LaTour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting

by Bridget Alsdorf

Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Fr d ric Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Through close readings of some of the most ambitious paintings of the realist and impressionist generation, Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153671
• ISBN13: 9780691153674
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.0"