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- Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
- Book
- 1993
- Published by: Cornell University Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- History of an Encounter
- pp. 1-17
- My mama told me ...
- pp. 18-37
- VotlĂ Victorine
- pp. 38-124
- In America
- pp. 125-159
Additional Information
ISBN
9780801468254
Related ISBN(s)
9780801486098
MARC Record
OCLC
966782523
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No