Twelve Views of Manet's Bar / / ed. by Bradford Collins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Carol,; Boime, Albert,; Carrier, David,; Champa, Kermit S.,; Collins, Bradford R.,; Driskel, Michael Paul,; Flam, Jack,; Gronberg, Tag,; Herbert, James D.,; House, John,; Levine, Steven Z.,; Pollock, Griselda,; Shiff, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Collins, Bradford,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) :; 1 color illustration, 41 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author -- Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergère -- Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère as an Allegory of Nostalgia -- Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère -- Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu) -- The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet's Bar -- On Manet's Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergère -- Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère -- Dumbshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference -- Privilege and the Illusion of the Real -- In Front of Manet's Bar: Subverting the "Natural" -- Manet's Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel -- The "View from Elsewhere": Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire -- A Select Bibliography for Methodological Issues in Art History -- ILLUSTRATIONS