Summer Scene (Bathers)

Nonetheless, in Fabric of Vision, Anne Hollander broached the question of Impressionism’s contribution to our understanding of men’s fashions.Hollander 2002. In particular, she carried out a subtle analysis of one of the variations of Gustave Caillebotte’s famous The Pont de l’Europe (1876–77; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth), which features three males in...

Like art and medicine, combat sports provide a licit space both actual and virtual for looking closely at and representing the...

~MY ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT some nineteenth-century familial myths around Manet’s art is, at some level, aimed at rescuing an essential feature of Manet’s art from the literalness of a certain brand of art history that concerns itself only with Manet’s subjects and motifs in a material sense. It is, in part, a reminder that the social history of...