Stephen F. Eisenman

Was Manet Ever Truly Modern?

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Critics and art historians often take Édouard Manet to be the first master of reification, the original modern painter. Evidence of that mastery is intermittent at best in the exhibition “Manet and Modern Beauty,” which debuted at the Art Institute of Chicago before traveling to the Getty Center in Los Angeles... Read more

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Tomma Abts

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The thirty-two small, abstract paintings in Tomma Abts’s show, which the Art Institute co-organized with the Serpentine Galleries in London, recall what Ezra Pound said he was trying to do with his short imagist poems... Read more

Charles White

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Counterfactuals are back in fashion. The election of Donald Trump catapulted sales of Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America (2004), which describes what might have occurred if Charles Lindbergh, running on his anti-Semitic “America First” platform, had won the presidency in 1940 instead of Roosevelt. .. Read more

Paul Gauguin

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Far from an alchemist who spun magic from dross, Gauguin was a materialist who embraced the terrestrial. The women in his pictures, with their heavy limbs and big feet, are decidedly earthbound. .. Read more

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