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Title: Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton ISBN: 0-452-01135-3 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Disappointing
Comment: Being an avid admirer of Manet and of the paintings in which Victorine Meurent appeared, I was happy to see a book about her. Finally, I would be able to learn something of her and her life! I learned that she was a Lesbian and died in 1927 and not as a destitute alcoholic as written in some rather sketchy histories of her. but that is all I learned. The book is actually more about the author and her trying to make peace with her past and her mother than anything else. If you want to learn about Victorine, you must find another book. If you want to know about Eunice Lipton, this is the book for you. Also very few facts in the book; the author puts Victorine in some situations and conversations, but these are all imaginary. Definitely would not recommend. Author was self-indulgent and apparently not very concerned with her subject.
Rating: 2
Summary: Dissapointing
Comment: Lipton seems reluctant to deal with the facts she can recover. Instead, she prefers to create a fiction which is more of a projection of her own neurosis than anything which is supported by her sources. All the primary sources agree that Victorine Meurent was a destitute alcoholic for some time before she dies, but Lipton prefers to imagine her as a proto-feminist heroine. She seems so blinded by her own prejudice that she can only lash out at anyone who presents her with information which paints Victorine in less than favorable colors. For a more balanced view of the same material, find a copy of Otto Freiderich's Olympia: Manet and the Paris of his Times.
Rating: 3
Summary: An inspiring story with a reward at the end.
Comment: This book is more autobiography than the "art history mystery" I had expected, but it's an engaging story, and well worth reading. When the missing diary, or some such document, which will tell all about the real life story of Victorine Muerant fails to materialize, a fictional version is inserted in chapters. I was dissappointed by this because it gives more weight to the story Ms Lipton invented and hoped to prove, than to the facts she worked so hard to reveal. The research is tedious and discouraging, and the results will not rock the art history world. The true reward for the author is not the tidbits of information she aquires about her subject, but in her own growth both as a blossoming writer and a woman. Her finest writing is in the descriptions of the things she knows best and experiences first-hand: the great food in Paris, her past life, her present feelings, her beliefs and self-realization. It's encouraging that Ms Lipton has chosen now to be a writer, and not an art historian, and I will look forward to her next effort.
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Title: Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History by Norma Broude, Mary D. Garrard ISBN: 0064302075 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $51.00 |
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Title: Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet by Otto Friedrich ISBN: 0060163186 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord ISBN: 0374515735 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux, Linda Coverdale, Tanya Leslie ISBN: 188836338X Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Erneaux ISBN: 1583225757 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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