Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Open University - Modern Art Practices & Debates) PDF
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MODERN ART PRACTICES AND DEBATES Modernity and Modernism MODERN ART PRACTICES AND DEBATES Modernity and Modernism French Painting in the Nineteenth Century Francis Frascina Nigel Blake Briony Fer Tamar Garb Charles Harrison YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN & LONDON IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE OPEN UNIVERSITY Copyright © 1993 The Open University First published 1993 by Yale University Press in association with The Open University All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this pubheation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of 33-34 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Modernity and Modernism: French painting in the nineteenth century/ Francis Frascina ... [et al.]. p. cm. - (Modem art - practices and debates) Includes index. ISBN 0-300-05513-7 (cloth) 0-300-05514-5 (paper) 1. Painting, French. 2. Impressionism (Art) - France. 3. Modernism (Art) - France. 4. Painting, Modern - 19th century - France. I. Frascina, Francis. II. Series. ND547.5.I4M64 1993 759.4'09'034-dc20 92-35017 Edited, designed and typeset by The Open University. Printed in Hong Kong by Kwong Fat Offset Printing Co. Ltd. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 by Briony Fer What is modern? 6 Invisible pictures: visual representation and language 15 The modern in formation 21 The spectator 28 The artist 33 The modern in fragments 37 After modernity? 46 References 49 CHAPTER 1 MODERN PRACTICES OF ART AND MODERNITY 50 by Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina Introduction: art as a social practice 50 Art practice and politics in the nineteenth-century art world 58 Courbet: representing the country to the town 68 Modernity, realism and the history of art: Manet's Old Musician 80 The problem of official tolerance 103 Modernization: spectacle and irony 111 Modernity: the social and the aesthetic 127 References 139 CHAPTER 2 IMPRESSIONISM, MODERNISM AND ORIGINALITY 141 by Charles Harrison Introduction 141 Impression and Impressionism 144 'Significant form' 152 Depth, flatness and self-criticism 157 Monet at La Grenouillère 167 Pissarro 186 Painting and human content 192 Cézanne 201 Monet's Nymphéas 214 References 218 CHAPTER 3 GENDER AND REPRESENTATION 219 by Tamar Garb Introduction 219 Artists 230 Painting as a woman 256 The historical viewer 276 References 290 index 291
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