Twelve Views of Manet's Bar

Published by Princeton University Press 1996

Twelve Views of Manet's Bar

Edited by: Bradford Collins

Volume 1 in the series Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223964

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About this book

Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, each contributor applies to it a different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics. By demonstrating the ways that individual practitioners actually apply the various methodological insights that inform their research, Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" serves as an excellent introduction to critical methodology as well as a provocative overview for those already familiar with the current discourse of art history. In the process of gaining new insight into Manet's work, and into the discourse of methodology, one discovers that it is not only the individual painting but art history itself that is under investigation. An introduction by Richard Shiff sets the background with a brief history of Manet scholarship and suggestions as to why today's accounts have taken certain distinct directions. The contributors, selected to provide a broad and balanced range of methodological approaches, include: Carol Armstrong, Albert Boime, David Carrier, Kermit Champa, Bradford R. Collins, Michael Paul Driskel, Jack Flam, Tag Gronberg, James D. Herbert, John House, Steven Z. Levine, and Griselda Pollock.

Author / Editor information

Bradford R. Collins is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina.

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"[Twelve Views of Manet's Bar] is a fascinating glimpse into the almost infinite richness of one centrally situated work of visual art, and the evolving methodologies developed by art and cultural historians to account for its complexities of meaning."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
INTRODUCTION Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author Richard Shiff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Carol Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère as an Allegory of Nostalgia Albert Boime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère David Carrier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu) Kermit S. Champa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet's Bar Bradford R. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
On Manet's Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergère Michael Paul Driskel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Jack Flam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Dumbshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference Tag Gronberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Privilege and the Illusion of the Real James D. Herbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
In Front of Manet's Bar: Subverting the "Natural" John House Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Manet's Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel Steven Z. Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
The "View from Elsewhere": Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire Griselda Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
A Select Bibliography for Methodological Issues in Art History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319