Luncheons on the grass : reimagining Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe /
Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe. Édouard Manet's Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the "most audacious...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Rizzoli Electa,
2024.
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| Summary: | Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe. Édouard Manet's Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the "most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France," as Ross King described it in The Judgement of Paris (2006). As Manet did with Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe, the most provocative painters today collapse the historical and the contemporary onto one plane. Jeffrey Deitch invited a group of these influential artists to create their own versions, combined here with historical responses to Manet's painting. The slim volume features these often biting and satirical works alongside essays discussing Le Ďjeuner sur l'herbe's enduring influence on contemporary figurative painting. -- Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Includes text by Jeffrey Deitch, Viola Angiolini, Thomas E. Crow, Aruna D'Souza, Marina Molarsky-Beck, Lowery Stokes Sims, Alexandra M. Thomas. Catalog of an exhibition held at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, February 19-April 23, 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 211 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780847899876 084789987X |