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En septembre 1876, a Londres, Stephane Mallarme publiait en langue anglaise une longue etude sur "Les impressionnistes et Edouard Manet". N'ayant pas ete recueilli dans les Oeuvres completes du poete, cette etude est largement meconnue des non-specialistes. Il s'agit pourtant d'un texte capital, tant dans l'histoire du discours de critique d'art que dans la trajectoire intellectuelle du poete. Pour la premiere fois, celui-ci explore une esthetique de crise, en la situant dans son champ d'effraction et en relation (pour le moins inattendue sous sa plume) avec les mutations socio-politiques de son temps. En ce sens et sous plus d'un egard, ce texte constitue la matrice du grand article qu'il consacrera, sous le titre "crise de vers", aux turbulences de tous ordres - prosodique, esthetique, linguistique, social - qui agiteront la scene poetique dans les annees 1880-1890. C'est sur ces deux articles, commentes integralement et donnes en version integrale, que porte la presente etude, articulant inseparablement a une exegese interne, une approche a caractere historique et sociologique. Lecture patiente, insistante, reinstallant leur contexte a l'interieur des textes examines. C'est a ce prix qu'il est permis d'approcher ce que deux textes majeurs ont cherche a faire voir dans la lueur orageuse des crises qui ont tour a tour eclate dans l'espace pictural et dans l'espace poetique. La double lecture dont se compose le present volume, on l'aura compris, n'entend pas seulement a l'ecoute d'un autre Mallarme, attentif au social et a ce qui s'y relie dans les phenomenes les plus tenus de l'ecriture ou de la representation, mais aussi apporter, au-dela du cas Mallarme et au-dela du cas Manet, une contribution a l'histoire sociale des formes esthetiques et des discours sur ces formes (Peeters 1998) ... Read more

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Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death--or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent--and about Lipton herself. ... Read more

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Is this supposed to be scholarship?
'Well, I'm a redhead now, and people are saying, "You know, you look like Victorine."
'Perhaps I do.'

Oh please. Elsewhere Lipton slips into the 'voice' of the model Victorine Meurant and seems to allege that she was an undiscovered or overlooked genius -- this in a time when such female artists as Suzanne Valadon, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot achieved reasonable, lasting success.
But most of the book is autobiography, telling Lipton's side of her first divorce or how she was unjustly fired from Hunter College, and so on.
It's dreadful.

Good read!
As an art lover and as I writer, the author's style of blending fact with conjecture was very well done. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Alias Olympia - What a Surprise
My girlfriend was going to do a musical about Victorine, so she spent years researching the subject, and offered Eunice Lipton 300 pages of research for free.
Imagine our surprise to read the book's first edition and find out that she had characterized my girlfriend as someone with a drinking problem.
There was a LITTLE PROBLEM with that. My girlfriend has been a lifelong TEETOTALER and had never met Eunice!
The book fails to describe Victorine, and it never delved into her COMPETENCY as an artist. It also doesn't mention enough famous works by famous artists that Victorine modelled for, so don't stop there when it comes to research.

Very Disappointing
Being an avid admirer of Manet and of the paintings in which Victorine Meurent appeared, I was happy to see a book about her.Finally, I would be able to learn something of her and her life!I learned that she was a Lesbian and died in 1927 and not as a destitute alcoholic as written in some rather sketchy histories of her. but that is all I learned.The book is actually more about the author and her trying to make peace with her past and her mother than anything else.If you want to learn about Victorine, you must find another book.If you want to know about Eunice Lipton, this is the book for you.Also very few facts in the book; the author puts Victorine in some situations and conversations, but these are all imaginary.Definitely would not recommend.Author was self-indulgent and apparently not very concerned with her subject.

Dissapointing
Lipton seems reluctant to deal with the facts she can recover. Instead, she prefers to create a fiction which is more of a projection of her own neurosis than anything which is supported by her sources. All the primary sources agree that Victorine Meurent was a destitute alcoholic for some time before she dies, but Lipton prefers to imagine her as a proto-feminist heroine. She seems so blinded by her own prejudice that she can only lash out at anyone who presents her with information which paints Victorine in less than favorable colors. For a more balanced view of the same material, find a copy of Otto Freiderich's Olympia: Manet and the Paris of his Times. ... Read more

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A Blank Journal with a Literary Theme
This blank journal is meant for journaling about books read.It has literary quotes and beautiful reproductions of paintings depicting women reading.It is refreshing to have a blank book journal as so many of the others are organized in specific ways which may or may not suit an individual.I have filled up two of these journals and enjoy the art, the ability to use as much (or as little) space as I want to write about each book.

From the Publisher
"This exquisite volume, illustrated with beautiful full-color reproductions of paintings of women reading, provides compelling inspiration for recording one's private thoughts. Works by Mary Cassatt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edward Hopper, James McNeill Whistler, and Winslow Homer, as well as contemporary selections, are included. Quotes from well-known female writers on the subjects of literature and reading appear throughout.

"Pomegranate's illustrated journals lend inspiration to thinkers, observers, and diarists. Hardcover, with a contrasting ribbon marker, each journal features 26 full-color illustrations and a wealth of insightful quotes. At only $17.95 it will appeal to the writer in everyone. 120 lined pages. ISBN: 0-87654-816-8; size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"."--© Pomegranate

Loved "The Reading Woman"
I picked up "The Reading Woman" in a museum gift shop and have loved owning it.I use it as a journal of the books I've read in the past and what I'm currently reading.It's amazing how quickly you forget a books you've read, so I enjoy writing my thoughts right after I finish one.The illustrations are lovely, some of them paintings from other centuries.Women have made time for reading FOREVER. Now that I've filled this journal completely, does anyone know of a similar one I can start?

A beautiful way to organize your books and reading!
This is a beautiful journal for women who lovebooks and reading. This lovely volume is organized for the books you've read, books you want to read, books you've loaned out, and more. What sets this jewel apart fromother book journals are the lovely prints of paintings depicting women invarious situations, simply enjoying reading. No cooking, caring forchildren,cleaning, teaching, nursing, etc. Just reading for pleasure. The journal also includes wonderful quotes about reading and books.Beautifully done. ... Read more

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This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology. ... Read more

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Splendid collection of art cards reproduced from the work of one of the 19th century’s most important artists. Includes Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863), The Fifer (1866), Jeanne, Spring (1881),Boating, (1874), A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1881-82), Sur le plage (1873), and 18 other attractive cards that can be used as bookmarks, sent to friends, or framed and added to a personal collection.
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Monet reminders
This collection of Monet paintings in card form is for Monet lovers.The cost is a small price to pay for the convenient reminder of Monet's wonderful talent.

The collection can be kept in a group or sprinkled around several places in the home for pleasure viewing.My collection has its place in the library.

Well done Amazon.

Richard Glenister
Gold Coast Australia

A Genius
This book show us a real Genius working. We can see in this book all life that his paints show, in a very critic aspect, with great history beside each one. It is wonderful. I'm brasilian and I fell in love for this book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1912.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more