Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter \u00c9douard Manet (1832\u20131883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition from Realism to Impressionism.<\/p>\n
Manet\u2019s work combined a painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, centered on the urban Paris experience. He recorded the city\u2019s parks, bars, and cabarets, often delighting in the frisson of underground or provocative content. The Paris salon rejected his D\u00e9jeuner sur l\u2019herbe with its juxtaposition of fully dressed men and a nude woman, while the steady gaze and unabashed pose of the prostitute Olympia, a very modern reworking of Titian\u2019s Venus of Urbino, caused a society scandal.<\/p>\n
This richly illustrated book introduces Manet\u2019s work and his uniquely influential combination of Realism, Impressionism, and reworked Old Masters that would become paradigms of a brave new world for generations of modernists to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter \u00c9douard Manet (1832\u20131883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet\u2019s work combined a painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, centered on the urban Paris experience….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4522],"product_tag":[154,524],"class_list":["post-15403","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-en","product_tag-monographs","product_tag-painting-en","pa_author_att-gilles-neret-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-21-x-26-cm-en","pa_isbn-9783836535106-en","pa_language-eng","pa_pages-96-en","pa_published-2016-04-15-en","pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n