Manet's Modernism: Or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s

by Michael Fried

Book Overview

Manet's Modernism is the culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the way in which the Impressionist simplification of Manet's achievement had determined subsequent accounts of pictorial modernism down to the present. Like Fried's previous books, Manet's Modernism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226262170
• ISBN13: 9780226262178
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.8"