Manet: initial M, hand and eye

Contents

Neither sailor, nor bohemian, nor dandy : a contrarian -- The artist-performer : a painter of modern life -- Naked painting : the prostitute effect -- Global dialogues : modernity and tradition -- Initial M : signatures and the double self -- Tout arrive : Avant-Garde strategies -- Politics on the surface : empire and republic -- Impressionist light and air : the plein air game -- Still life and silence : a poetics of bouquets -- A modern sensibility : the alienated eye -- Manet in life and death.