Value in art : Manet and the slave trade / Henry M. Sayre.

• Olympia's value -- Prostitution and slavery -- Sand/Baudelaire, Couture/Manet -- "La femme" de Baudelaire -- Le sud de Manet -- Poe -- Two wars -- Zola's Olympia -- Value in art -- Coda.

• "How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value." In this book, Henry Sayre traces the origins of this usage in one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Manet's Olympia. Masterfully researched and argued, this bold study reveals the extraordinary weight of history and politics that Manet's painting bears, and the presence of slavery at modernism's roots. Sayre shows that it was Émile Zola who introduced a new "law of values" to art criticism in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings of Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's use of the economic metaphor of "value" was doubly coded. On the one hand, it was a feint that deflected attention away from Olympia's actual subject and toward the painting's formal qualities. On the other, Sayre argues, "value" for Zola was a trope for the political economy of slavery and the Second Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave trade in the Americas. Value in Art is a surprising and necessary intervention in our understanding of modern art's emergence in relation to issues of race"-- 

Ämnesord

Slaveri  (sao)

Svarta personer i konsten  (sao)

Konst och politik  (sao)

Konst och litteratur  (sao)

Intellektuellt liv  (sao)

Blacks in art.  (LCSH)

Art and society  -- France -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Slavery  -- United States -- Foreign public opinion. (LCSH)

Art  -- Political aspects -- France. (LCSH)

Art and literature  -- France. (LCSH)

Konstvetenskap  (kao)

History of art  (kao//eng)

Kvinnobilden  (kao)

Image of women  (kao//eng)

Modeller  (kao)

Models  (kao//eng)

Svarta  (kao)

Blacks  (kao//eng)

Konst och samhälle  -- historia (sao)

Art and literature  (LCSH)

Black people in art  (LCSH)

Slavery  (LCSH)

Intellectual life  (LCSH)

Frankrike  (sao)

France  -- Civilization -- American influences. (LCSH)

France  -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Frankrike  (kao)

France  (kao//eng)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800-talet  (kao)

19th century  (kao//eng)

Personnamn

Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883

Namn/titel

Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883: Olympia. 

Klassifikation

ND553.M3 (LCC)

759.4 (DDC)

Ie-j (kssb/8 (machine generated))