Alias Olympia : a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire / Eunice Lipton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipton, Eunice, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meurent, Victorine.

Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883--Relations with women.

Manet, Édouard.

Lipton, Eunice, 1941-.

Lipton, Eunice.

Artists' models--France--Biography.

Artists' models.

Women art historians--United States--Biography.

Women art historians.

Feminist art criticism--United States.

Feminist art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c1992 (1999 printing)

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death-or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent-and about Lipton herself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

History of an Encounter

My mama told me ...

Voilá Victorine

In America

The End

Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-181).

ISBN:

9780801468247

0801468248

9780801468254

0801468256

OCLC:

847623269