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Lyutsiya Staub

Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas

This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth Robards (2008), Dancing for Degas (DFD) by Kathryn Wagner (2010) and The Painted Girls (TPG) by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013).
393 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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  • Talia Garzahas quoted4 months ago
    sense-impressions of seen objects that put emphasis on their hues”
  • Talia Garzahas quoted4 months ago
    Impressionism offers “canvases that [play] on a tension between an openly dabbed-on plane surface and a rendering of
  • Talia Garzahas quoted4 months ago
    Impressionists step aside from traditionally approved historical or mythological subjects and find theirs in everyday ‘real’ life.
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