Manet and His Critics

by George Heard Hamilton

Book Overview

Some of the criticism was bitter and some ridiculous (one critic wrote, Manet, who ought not to have forgotten the panic caused by his black cat in Olympia, has borrowed a parrot from his friend Courbet and placed it on a perch beside a young lady in a pink dressing gown. These realists are capable of anything!), some knowledgeable and some not. Mr. Hamilton's book assesses the range of these reactions, and the result is an illuminating study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393003728
• ISBN13: 9780393003727
• Release Date: October 1969
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"