Modernity and Modernism : French Painting in the Nineteenth Century

by Francis Frascina, Tamar Garb, Nigel Blake, and Briony Fer

• ISBN13: 9780300055146
• ISBN10: 0300055145
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1993-02-24
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This is the first in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The authors seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. The books present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between about 1848 and 1900.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
What is modern?	p. 6
Invisible pictures: visual representation and language	p. 15
The modern in formation	p. 21
The spectator	p. 28
The artist	p. 33
The modern in fragments	p. 37
After modernity?	p. 46
Modern Practices of Art and Modernity	p. 50
Introduction: art as a social practice	p. 50
Art practice and politics in the nineteenth-century art world	p. 58
Courbet: representing the country to the town	p. 68
Modernity, realism and the history of art: Manet's Old Musician	p. 80
The problem of official tolerance	p. 103
Modernization: spectacle and irony	p. 111
Modernity: the social and the aesthetic	p. 127
Impressionism, Modernism and Originality	p. 141
Impression and Impressionism	p. 144
'Significant form'	p. 152
Depth, flatness and self-criticism	p. 157
Monet at La Grenouillere	p. 167
Pissarro	p. 186
Painting and human content	p. 192
Cezanne	p. 201
Monet's Nympheas	p. 214
Gender and Representation	p. 219
Artists	p. 230
Painting as a woman	p. 256
The historical viewer	p. 276
Index	p. 291
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