Manet and the Object of Painting Michel Foucault Foucault, Michel 25 . ··· (更多) 原文摘录 ··· ( 全部 ) Foucault is less interested by what the image says than by what it produces -- the behaviour that it generates, and what it leaves barely seen among the social machinery ...
Reading “Manet and the Object of Painting” provided me a new set of deciphering tools to use when standing before a Manet. More broadly, Foucault taught me new ways to look at representational art of all kinds. Consider, for example, the first of his themes — Manet’s adoption of a ...
In these earlier painters, Manet found a precedent for his use of abbreviated brushstrokes and simplified forms. In 1863, his painting Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, was rejected from the official Salon and hung in the Salon de Refuses, where it drew scorn from both the general public and ...
The French art critics of the nineteenth century were “accustomed to viewing nude figures, nymphs, and goddesses (Friedrich 3). “Manet’s Olympia was virtually the first painting that made no pretense at such disguises” (Friedrich 3). For the first time in the upper-class, something from...
draws the viewer’s eye to the object of veneration. By making reference to the painting by Ingres, he thus renders the significance of his work more easily understood: Delacroix, like Homer, embodies the genius that will be passed on to the next generations. The identities of the other fig...
‘This is how things happened and, as I can truly say,. Magritte began by painting a little gouache with a frontal view of acoffin installed in an armchair. I well remember that when Nougé and I saw it together for the first time, our immediate reaction was to burst o...
He preferred the path of long academic training, his ambition to exhibit at the Salon, the Parisian equivalent of the Royal Academy; this he achieved but not without the sour adversity of powerful Salonards and the mocking hostility of influential critics, the insiders objecting to his alla ...
Also in 1863 the Salon rejected Manet's large painting Luncheon on the Grass; its combination of clothed men and a nude woman was considered offensive. Manet elected to have it shown at the now famous Salon des Refusés, created by the Emperor to quiet complaints from the large number of ...
In the Musée d’Orsay bookshop, among coffee mugs and calendars, I came across a recently published lecture Michel Foucault gave in Tunis in the spring of 1971 entitled “Manet and the Object of Painting.” In it Foucault argues that what “Manet made possible was all the painting after Im...
(Biography)Édouard(edwar). 1832–83, French painter. His paintingLe Déjeuner sur l'herbe(1863), which was condemned by the Parisian establishment, was acclaimed by the Impressionists, whom he decisively influenced Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © Harpe...