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—Mary-Ann Middelkoop

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On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne EDU the history of the bookRichard R. Brettell As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to define and nearly universally avoided. In this insightful book, Richard R. Brettell, one of the leading authorities on Impressionism and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dares to confront the concept of modern