On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey his attitude toward contemporary political

his attitude toward contemporary political

Translated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt

Born in Venice

Virginia Woolf

On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey his attitude toward contemporary politicalRichard R. Brettell As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern