On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Delightful images of everything from precious antiquities to contemporary film stills support the authors’ insightful analyses

Paul Outerbridge Jr

Translated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt

is a leading authority on Michelangelo

On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne odyssey Virginia WoolfRichard R. Brettell As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern