Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire

Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Lipton, Eunice (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2013]
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:FHA01
FKE01
FLA01
UBG01
UPA01
FAW01
FAB01
FCO01
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death-or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent-and about Lipton herself
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9780801468254
DOI:10.7591/9780801468254

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen