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EDOUARD MANET 

Scope|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites 

Scope: Manet was a French artist who painted modern versions of older subjects. His work was akin to the works of the classical masters. He is famous for his paintings of naked nymphs and Venus.

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library. 

OVERVIEW SOURCES 

REF N 31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art

REF N 5300.I 45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Fried, Michael. Manet’s Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Hanson, Anne Coffin. Manet and the Modern Tradition. New Haven: Yale University 
Press, 1977.

Manet, Edouard. The Complete Paintings of Manet. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 
1967.

Manet, Edouard. Manet by Himself: Correspondence & Conversation, Paintings, Pastels, Prints & Drawings. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

Rubin, James Henry. Manet’s Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Sandblad, Nils Gosta. Manet, Three Studies in Artistic Conception. Lund: C.W.K.
Gleerup, 1954.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Open Access Journals in Arts & Architecture

Open Access Journals in History of Arts

Open Access Journals in Visual Arts

VIDEOS

ND 553.M3 1989 Edouard Manet

WEB SITES

http://www.the-artists.org

 

Updated 08/24/2007