A History of European Art

Lecture 42: Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism

Fried, Manet’s Modernism.

Sproccati, Monet.

1. What elements in Manet’s work were so shocking to
   his contemporaries?


2. What is your immediate response to the question asked at the end of the
   lecture: Why does Monet make no reference whatsoever in his art to the
   central political trauma of France?

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