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Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hardcover, xv, 338 pp. plus 31 unnumbered pages of color plates; 24 cm; First Edition; 148 illustrations, 30 in color. A Borzoi Book.
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In Acceptable condition with a Good dust jacket. Tan paper boards with green cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine and gilt "TJC" monogram with rule on front board; mild surface and edge wear, some soiling to boards and scuffing to spine cloth. Front hinge cracked at the half-title with mull exposed and binding slightly shaken; text block intact, all pages present. Previous owner's ink name, date and ex-libris note on front free endpaper. Heavier foxing to endpapers, foxing to edges of text block (heavier along top edge), and mild spotting and soiling throughout. Pale yellow highlighting to about four lines each on pp. 9-10, otherwise unmarked. Price-clipped pictorial dust jacket reproduces Manet's L'Exposition universelle de 1867 (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo) across front and rear panels; 1-inch tear at top edge of rear panel, 3/4-inch tear at bottom edge of front panel, smaller nicks, tearing and creasing along edges, mild overall scuffing and soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. First edition of Clark's study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Manet and his followers. Clark argues that modernism grew out of these painters' attempts to represent the new Paris of the 1860s and 1870s: Haussmann's boulevards, cafes, suburban pleasure grounds and the clerks and shopgirls who filled them. Includes chapters on Haussmann's city, Manet's Olympia, Argenteuil and the environs of Paris, and A Bar at the Folies-Bergere; Seurat's Un Dimanche apres-midi a l'Ile de la Grande Jatte is reproduced as a double-page color plate. Plates include works by Pissarro, Monet, Cezanne, Raffaelli and Guillaumin. Clark, then professor of art history at Harvard, had previously written The Absolute Bourgeois and Image of the People. Contents: Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The View from Notre-Dame; Olympia's Choice; The Environs of Paris; A Bar at the Folies-Bergere; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.