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

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; 1 color illustration, 41 halftones
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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