![]() ![]() ![]() Lipton's iconoclastic, feminist approach is refreshing and intriguing. The model emerges as a strong and independent woman who defies all efforts by traditional scholars to patronize and degrade her. ![]() ![]() Using reminiscences of her own troubled childhood as a catalyst and projecting her feelings and desires onto her elusive subject, she fleshes out the story and constructs a highly original portrait of Meurent, for whom she invents colorful monologues. Even though the results of her quest were meager-she found little about Meurent's life and was unable to locate any of her paintings-Lipton's account of her search is as exciting as a good detective story. By combing through libraries and archives in Paris and New York, Lipton ( Looking into Degas ) hoped to reconstruct the life of Victorine Meurent and prove that this mysterious 19th-century woman, an artist in her own right as well as the model for the famous nudes of Manet's Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe, was more than the pathetic alcoholic who appears in academic studies by male art historians. Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton The Parisian Sphinx, upcoming nonfiction by Summer Brennan (cover not final) Share this: Share Loading. ![]()
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