Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Open University - Modern Art Practices & Debates)

312 Pages·1993·101.685 MB·English

by  Francis Frascina, Tamar Garb, Nigel Blake, Briony Fer, Charles Harrison

MODERN ART
PRACTICES AND DEBATES
Modernity and Modernism

MODERN ART
PRACTICES AND DEBATES
Modernity and Modernism
French Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Francis Frascina Nigel Blake Briony Fer
Tamar Garb Charles Harrison
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN & LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Modernity and Modernism: French painting in the nineteenth century/
Francis Frascina ... [et al.].
p. cm. - (Modem art - practices and debates)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-300-05513-7 (cloth)
0-300-05514-5 (paper)
1. Painting, French. 2. Impressionism (Art) - France.
3. Modernism (Art) - France. 4. Painting, Modern - 19th century - France.
I. Frascina, Francis. II. Series.
ND547.5.I4M64 1993 759.4'09'034-dc20 92-35017
Edited, designed and typeset by The Open University.
Printed in Hong Kong by Kwong Fat Offset Printing Co. Ltd.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
by Briony Fer
What is modern? 6
Invisible pictures: visual representation and language 15
The modern in formation 21
The spectator 28
The artist 33
The modern in fragments 37
After modernity? 46
References 49
CHAPTER 1
MODERN PRACTICES OF ART AND MODERNITY 50
by Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina
Introduction: art as a social practice 50
Art practice and politics in the nineteenth-century art world 58
Courbet: representing the country to the town 68
Modernity, realism and the history of art: Manet's Old Musician 80
The problem of official tolerance 103
Modernization: spectacle and irony 111
Modernity: the social and the aesthetic 127
References 139
CHAPTER 2
IMPRESSIONISM, MODERNISM AND ORIGINALITY 141
by Charles Harrison
Introduction 141
Impression and Impressionism 144
'Significant form' 152
Depth, flatness and self-criticism 157
Monet at La Grenouillère 167
Pissarro 186
Painting and human content 192
Cézanne 201
Monet's Nymphéas 214
References 218
CHAPTER 3
GENDER AND REPRESENTATION 219
by Tamar Garb
Introduction 219
Artists 230
Painting as a woman 256
The historical viewer 276
References 290
index 291