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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kessler, Marni Reva. Sheer presence. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006023158 (OCoLC)70707738 |
Named Person: | Édouard Manet; Édouard Manet |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marni Reva Kessler |
ISBN: | 9780816698332 0816698333 |
OCLC Number: | 182859612 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 215 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. PATHOLOGIZING THE SECOND EMPIRE CITY; 2. MAKING UP THE SURFACE; 3. UNMASKING MANET'S MORISOT, OR VEILING SUBJECTIVITY; 4. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VEIL; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
Responsibility: | Marni Reva Kessler. |
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Abstract:
Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France. In Sheer Presence, Marni Reva Kessler demonstrates how this ubiquitous garment and its visual representations knot together many of the precepts of Parisian life.
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