- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (Mar 4 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691036918
- ISBN-13: 978-0691036915
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#1,315,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( M-O ) > Manet, Edouard
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[Twelve Views of Manet's Bar] is a fascinating glimpse into the almost infinite richness of one centrally situated work of visual art, and the evolving methodologies developed by art and cultural historians to account for its complexities of meaning. -- "Art History
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Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, each contributor applies to it a different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics. By demonstrating the ways that individual practitioners actually apply the various methodological insights that inform their research, Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" serves as an excellent introduction to critical methodology as well as a provocative overview for those already familiar with the current discourse of art history. In the process of gaining new insight into Manet's work, and into the discourse of methodology, one discovers that it is not only the individual painting but art history itself that is under investigation. An introduction by Richard Shiff sets the background with a brief history of Manet scholarship and suggestions as to why today's accounts have taken certain distinct directions. The contributors, selected to provide a broad and balanced range of methodological approaches, include: Carol Armstrong, Albert Boime, David Carrier, Kermit Champa, Bradford R. Collins, Michael Paul Driskel, Jack Flam, Tag Gronberg, James D. Herbert, John House, Steven Z. Levine, and Griselda Pollock.
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Flee this Book,
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This review is from: Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" (Paperback)
This is the sort of book that gives art history--especially the "new" art history--a black name. Most of the articles are written in deliberately inpenetrable prose, always hiding the the most inept questions and comments (i.e., "Did Manet really intend to paint the mirror that way?") Only Griselda Pollock's article shows any sign of intelligence. Another title for this book: "12 Ways to Kill any Interest in a Work of Art."
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3.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Not Just An Art History Book,
By I. A. Finkelstein "Ira F" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" (Paperback)
As a lawyer who has clients involved in the art world, and has Manet (reproductions) on his wall, I have actually recommended this book to people who are thinking about applying to law school. While this may not make immediate sense to a non-lawyer (and may turn you non-lawyers off about the book), the different methodologies, lenses, sensibilities and sometimes inflexible dogmas through which the art historians view this iconic and enigmatic painting find amazing parallels in the wildly divergent theories and perspectives in which legal philosophers, professors and judges view and interpret the complex combination of factors (cultural, societal, class-based, psychological, political, authoritarian, libertarian, scientific, agrarian, industrial, religious, racial, tribal, etc.) through which what we call "the law" develops.
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A Marvelous Example of the Many Approaches to Art History,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 12 Views of Manet's Bar (Hardcover)
This is one of those books that art history students should use to learn the complexity of the field and the many different approaches to art currently practiced by art historians. For lovers of Impressionism, this is one of the deepest and richest studies of a single work-- and what a work! Manet's BAR is one of the most mysterious and gripping works of western art, and it's hard to imagine a work more deserving of this deep treatment.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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its good!! !! i like it,
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This review is from: Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" (Paperback)
if you wanna know about a Manet's specifics painting!i recommend you to buy this book ! i am sure that you can get a good knowledge of art history! especially graduate school students :) |
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