On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne
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Review “On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period.” (Alexander Adams Art)“An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a clichéd phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing.” (Hyperallergic) Read more About the Author Richard R. Brettell is the founding director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and the Margaret McDermott Chair of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Read more
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Richard R. Brettell poses three questions which he seeks to answer in his art history book, "On Modern Beauty": Is beauty transitory? Is beauty immemorial? Is beauty beyond time? His book is a collection of three essays with the aim to answer these questions using modern works of art from Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, compared with other works of art from other eras and how they might answer these same questions.It is a fascinating study on both the time these pieces were created and the essential questions posed to understand the meaning of art and the changes in time as different eras of art communicate new ideas.I enjoyed the discussion Mr. Brettell engaged his readers in and learned a lot from this book.I received this eBook free of charge from Getty Publications via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. I did not receive any fiscal compensation from either company for this review and the opinions expressed herein are entirely my own.
