The photographic subversion: Benjamin, Manet and Art(istic) reproduction

Besides referring to museum masterpieces in his 1863 paintings Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, Édouard Manet used photography, of both academic and pornographic models, new genres of commercial photography that emerged during the early 1850s. I argue that Manet deliberately conflated fine art r...

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Main Author: Lauren Weingarden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2006-12-01
Series:Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura
Online Access:http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/1371