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Alias Olympia

a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire

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An edition of Alias Olympia (1992)

Alias Olympia

a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire

  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

In this stylish work of imaginative nonfiction, Eunice Lipton re-creates a provocative figure out of nineteenth-century art history, Victorine Meurent, the mysterious woman who modeled for Manet's most famous paintings, Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe. Was Meurent, as her contemporaries would have had us believe, simply a drunkard, a prostitute? Or was she - whose defiant gaze from Manet's canvas provoked a riot - an accomplished artist in her own right? Through the.

streets of Paris, an American art historian sets out on an inquiry into the life of Victorine Meurent. As the pieces of an untold story begin to accumulate, something unforeseen happens to her. Every step she takes to undo the erasure of Meurent's life brings her face-to-face with the boundaries of her own. Every day she loses herself a little more in the other woman. Finally, their destinies become inextricably entangled. The historian uncovers, and evokes, the model's.

bohemian life in Paris: the cafe's and alleys of Montmartre; the painters' studios and salons; the squalor, scandal, and feverish creativity. And Victorine takes the historian on a long voyage home, to the Bronx of her childhood, to her immigrant father's dreams, to City College of the 1950s, and finally to her own repressed desire to be a writer. At once memoir and compelling detective story, Alias Olympia is on the cutting edge of contemporary trends in biography. Why.

should a life be valued only as a series of accomplishments? Eunice Lipton asks. What if biography were a tale of desire? How, then, would we tell a woman's life?

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English
Pages
181

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Alias Olympia
1999, Cornell University Press
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Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire
May 1999, Cornell University Press
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Alias Olympia: a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire
1993, Thames and Hudson
in English
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Alias Olympia: a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire
1992, Cornell University Press
in English
Cover of: Alias Olympia
Alias Olympia: a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire
1992, C. Scribner's Sons, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
in English
Cover of: Alias Olympia
Alias Olympia: a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire
1992, C. Scribner's Sons, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-181).

Published in
New York, Toronto, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.4, B
Library of Congress
ND553.M3 L56 1992, ND553

The Physical Object

Pagination
181 p. ;
Number of pages
181

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24773493M
Internet Archive
aliasolympiawoma00lipt
ISBN 10
0684194171
ISBN 13
9780684194172, 9780801468254
LCCN
92009745
OCLC/WorldCat
25631173

First Sentence

"I don't remember when I first saw Victorine Meurent, but I wouldn't have recognized her or known her name at the time."

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