Alias Olympia a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire Eunice Lipton
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TextPublication details: Ithaca Cornell University Press c1992 Description: 181 p. 21 cmISBN: - 0801486092
- 759.4 MAN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.4 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000267584 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-181)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
A distinguished art historian, Eunice Lipton
is the author of Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life and, most recently, French Seduction: An American's Encounter with France, Her Father and the Holocaust . She divides her time between New York City and Paris.