Manet: Initial M, Hand and Eye

by James Rubin

An authoritative work on Edouard Manet, viewed by many as the father of modern painting. Few artists have created as much controversy as Manet: his avant-garde work not only challenged the traditions of art, but also addressed society as a whole. With his painting Olympia (1869), he was to become, to quote Degas, "as famous as Garibaldi." Yet how the diffident son of a bourgeois family became the father of both realism and impressionism is a complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2080301063
• ISBN13: 9782080301062
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 7.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.0" x 13.0"