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On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne

By Richard R. Brettell

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About the book

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 and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern beauty head-on. This is not a study of aesthetic philosophy, but ra...Show more

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ISBN

9781606066065

Publisher

Getty Trust Publications

Published year

2019

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1

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On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne

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Paperback

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