6/10/2023 0 Comments Olympia by Otto Friedrich![]() ![]() In these the focus narrows to the reactions of contemporary critics toward the revolution taking place in art, a radical change in sensibility that eventually evolved into impressionism. One of the few reasonably well-documented relationships in Manet’s life, his long connection with the painter Berthe Morisot and her family, is described in two other chapters. These sections are intensified by fragments of reportage and correspondence by Emil Zola, the Goncourt brothers and others whose lives touched Manet’s at least tangentially.Ī chapter called “Nana” explores the anomalous place of prostitution in French life, exploring the economic causes, the uneasy combination of tolerance and contempt with which the women were regarded and the effect of these attitudes on society at large.Īnother long section describes the magical transformation of Paris wrought by Georges Haussmann at the behest of Napoleon III, a massive reconstruction that turned an overgrown town into a marvel of civic design. ![]()
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