书名：On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne/论现代美：马奈、高更和塞尚的三幅绘画
定价：155.0
ISBN：9781606066065
作者：Richard R. Brettell
版次：1
出版时间：2019-06

内容提要：

A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne. 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 beauty head-on. This is not a study of aesthetic philosophy, but rather a richly contextualized look at the ambitions of specific artists and artworks at a particular time and place.
 
Brettell shapes his manifesto around three masterworks from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum: édouard Manet’s Jeanne (Spring), Paul Gauguin’s Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), and Paul Cézanne’s Young Italian Woman at a Table. The provocative discussion reveals how each of these exceptional paintings, though depicting very different subjects—a fashionable actress, a preserved head, and a weary working woman—enacts a revolutionary, yet enduring, icon of beauty.

用马奈、高更和塞尚的三件艺术作品对美进行发人深省的审视。随着艺术史学科转向鉴赏力，美的概念变得越来越成问题。无论是文化还是个人主观，这个词都很难定义，几乎普遍回避。在这本富有洞察力的书中，19世纪和20世纪初印象派和法国艺术的主要权威之一理查德·布雷特尔敢于直面现代美的概念。这不是美学哲学的研究，而是对特定艺术家和艺术品在特定时间和地点的抱负的丰富语境化审视。

布雷特尔围绕保罗·盖蒂博物馆收藏的三件杰作塑造了他的宣言：爱德华·马奈的《珍妮》（春天）、保罗·高更的《阿里·马塔莫伊》（皇家末日）和保罗·塞尚的《餐桌上的年轻意大利女人》。挑衅性的讨论揭示了这些不同寻常的画作是如何描绘出一个非常不同的主题的——一个时尚的女演员、一个保存完好的头和一个疲惫的职业女性——一个革命性的但持久的美丽偶像。