Manet The Man Who Invented Modernity - Softcover

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9782070133222: Manet The Man Who Invented Modernity

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Édition en langue anglaise.

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Stéphane Guégan est conservateur et critique d'art. Conseiller scientifique auprès de la Présidence du musée d'Orsay, il est aussi l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur la peinture et la littérature du XIXe et XXe siècles et notamment de Les Fleurs du mal illustrées par Henri Matisse (Hazan, 2016), de Joris-Karl Huysmans. De Degas à Grünewald (Gallimard / Musée d'Orsay, 2019) ou de Delacroix, Peindre contre l'oubli (Flammarion, 2018).

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Obviously unique, erotic and political, highly autobiographical, at times ironic, and always turned toward the public space, Manet's art was also playful. To gamble, to take risks, and to collect the winnings if possible, all three things were vital to this man of great ambition. The former sailor navigated by sight, always in open waters. No retreat, no safe haven, no evasion. Manet feared his doubts less than he feared failure and routine. To become tied down to some formula or particular genre would have been, for him, the worst way of giving up. A revolutionary, certainly, a history painter in his own way, he was above all a Salon painter, ready to do battle with the jury and the public so as to impose the Modern into great art.

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