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The painting of modern life

T. J. Clark · 1984

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Paris in the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a centre of modern life. This book argues that the art of Manet and his contemporaries was an attempt to give form to that modernity.

Book details

Year
1984
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Editions
3
Pages
360
ISBN
9780691040493

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