Ligo, Larry L.R.
Dr. Larry L. Ligo is Professor of Art History at Davidson College. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main areas of teaching and research are nineteenth-century European painting, modern architecture, modern painting and sculpture, and, most recently, the history of garden design. Dr. Ligo has received grants from the Freeman Foundation, the Florence G. Gould Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has published numerous articles on Manet, and his book, The Concept of Function in Twentieth-Century Architectural Criticism, was published by UMI Research Press.
2022 1-4955-0936-2This two-book set provides a thorough examination and interpretation of nearly every major painting that Edouard Manet publicly exhibited between 1861-1882 in his struggle to create a new style called modern art. The author demonstrates that Manet developed a unique and new style of painting by employing Charles Baudelaire's aesthetic theory. In this way Manet created the characteristic style of modern art.
This combined, consecutively paginated, two volume book set contains 139 colored illustrations.
Price: $499.95