Manet and the Sea

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003. Hardcover. VG/VG. Light edge wear to dj, clean and tight otherwise except for owner's sticker on ffep.. Navy cloth with silver lettering. Color dust jacket, sea-green spine with black lettering. xv, 271 pp. 119 color plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, October 20, 2003 to January 19, 2004 and two other locations (Philadelphia Museum of Art and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdan). "Manet and the Sea is the first book to highlight the French master's beautiful and varied seascapes. Essays by leading scholars discuss how Manet completely overturned established academic conventions of marine painting in France. His provocative approach was equal to that of his contemporary Gustave Courbet, and his bold and innovative techniques inspired many younger artists, including Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, James McNeill Whistler, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Essays on these and other artists place their seascapes in relation to Manet's pictures." "This illustrated and designed book presents more than one hundred paintings and drawings in full color. Anyone interested in the sea, maritime painting, nineteenth-century French painting, and particularly the role Manet played in the Impressionist revolution, will find this a book to own."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Manet and the Dutch Marine Tradition / Lloyd Dewitt 1 -- Marine Painting in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France / John Zarobell 17 -- The Sea as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France / Gloria Groom 35 -- Manet and the Sea / Juliet Wilson-Bareau, David Degener 55 -- Gustave Courbet / Joseph J. Rishel 159 -- Johan Barthold Jongkind / John Zarobell 173 -- Eugene Boudin / John Zarobell 179 -- James McNeill Whistler / Richard Dorment 187 -- Claude Monet / John Leighton 201 -- Berthe Morisot / Bill Scott 227 -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Joseph J. Rishel 243 -- Eva Gonzales / Ann Temkin 251.