On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey 59 color and 61 duotone

59 color and 61 duotone illustrations

Paul Outerbridge Jr

ISBN 978-1-60606-591-4

Born in Venice

and the year the work was created

On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey 59 color and 61 duotoneRichard R. Brettell 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