A collection of essays concerning Manet's painting 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'.
Edouard Manet's controversial painting "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" is one of the best known images in French art. The subject of critical analysis for more than a century, it still defies singular interpretation. These essays, written especially for this volume by leading scholars of French modern art offer six different readings of the painting. 35 photos.
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1. Making sense of Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe Paul Tucker; 2. Sex and the salon: defining art and immorality in 1863 Anne McCauley; 3. Manet and the de-moralised viewer John House; 4. To paint, to point, to pose: Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Carol Armstrong; 5. Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe as a family romance Nancy Locke; 6. The fascination with this rendez-vous does not diminish Marcia Pointon.
