Alias Olympia [[electronic resource] ] : a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire / / Eunice Lipton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452638103321
• Autore: Lipton Eunice
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c1992
• ISBN: 0-8014-6824-8; 0-8014-6825-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 759.4; B
• Soggetti: Artists' models - France - Biography; Women art historians - United States - Biography; Feminist art criticism - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-181).
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- History of an Encounter -- My mama told me ... -- Voilá Victorine -- In America -- The End -- Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.