A Woman With No Clothes on V.R. Main
Customer Rating
€18.59
Description
The aristocratic Edouard Manet and the working class, Victorine Meurent, his model, share a passion for art. Victorine's bitter struggle to emerge from her background contrasts sharply with the esoteric exchanges between Manet and his friend Baudelaire on the nature of modernism.
Book Details
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 350
- Dimensions: 240 x 160
- Publication: 7 July 2008
- Publisher: Delancey Press Ltd
- ISBN: 9780953911974
- ISBN (Ten digit): 0953911977
- Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- Readership: General (Us: Trade)
Customer Reviews
A very special story
I bought this novel for my son who is at an arts college. He read it quickly, and saying how much he enjoyed it, he passed it on to me. It's a wondefully moving story, full of interesting facts. The style is straightforward and almost stark, but very powerful - quite a change from all those books overburdened with metaphors. My next holiday will be in Paris. I must go and see all those Manet picutres.
A profound story
I very much enjoyed this gentle but most intirguing story of the relationship between Manet and his young model. I thought it much better reserached that A Girl with a Pearl Earring and absolutely wonderful in its period and place detail. Very well written sex scenes.
Hooray for Victorine
Loved this novel: the painter and his model tell the story in their own words. Beautiful sections on the way a visual mind works. Baudelaire is a hoot. If only reproductions of the paintings were included...
