Twelve Views of Manet's Bar

Name: Twelve Views of Manet's Bar
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ISBN: 9780691036915

ISBN-10: 0691036918

ISBN-13: 9780691036915

Edition: 1996

Authors: Bradford Collins

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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'sA Bar at the Folies-Bergegrave;re,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…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/24/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.49" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



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-Bergere


Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an Allegory of Nostaligia


Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere


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-Bergere


Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere


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