On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne

by Richard R. Brettell

Book Overview

A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and C zanne. As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606066064
• ISBN13: 9781606066065
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.7"