and artist

the history of the book post–World War II

One spread shows a woman's upraised hands from an illuminated manuscript

ISBN 978-0-89236-179-3

On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne EDU and artistRichard 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