Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets

by James Rubin

Book Overview

A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's painting. His flattened, sometimes fragmented forms appear to exist absentmindedly in a world removed from speech. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in a book that shows us Manet as we see him--naturally, in pictures that articulated their own purely visual terms. In such a sense, this book is about the restoration of the visual to its primacy in art through Manet's painting.While insisting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674548035
• ISBN13: 9780674548039
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"