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Twelve Views of Manet's Bar

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Twelve Views of Manet's Bar
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Bradford Collins
SeriesPrinceton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreImpressionism and post-Impressionism
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780691036915
ClassificationsDewey:759.4
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 1 color illustration, 41 halftones

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 24 March 1996
Publication Country United States

Description

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-Bergere, 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.

Author Biography

Bradford R. Collins is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina.

Reviews

"[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