Manet and the Object of Painting

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Manet and the Object of Painting

BY MICHEL FOUC/.1.ULT

Translated from French by Matthew Barr With an introduction by Nicolas Bourria ud

Tate Publishing

First publish ed in English 2009 by order of the Tate Trust ees by Tat e Publishing, a division of Tate En te rp r ises Ltd, Mill bank, London SW1 P 4RG www.tate .o rg. u k/pu bli sh i ng First published in paperback 2011 ©Ed itions de Seuil 2009 English translation© Tate 2009 All rig ht s reserved . No part of th is book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any elect ronic , mechanical or other means, now known or herea f te r invented, including photo copying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, w ithout permission in writing from the publishers A. catalogue record for this book is available from t he British Library ISBN 978 1 85437 996 2 Distribu ted in the United State s an d Canada by ABRAMS, New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926192 Designed by Chalk www.chalkdesign.co.uk Co lour r eprod uction by DL In terac tive Ltd , London Pr int ed and bound in China by C&C Offset Printing Co ., Ltd Front cover: Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1881-2 [detail of fig.13l

All images are supplied by the owner of the work except: fig.6 © Jorg P. Anders/BPK figs.7, 9, 10, 11, 12 © RMN [Mus ee d'Orsayl/Herve Lewandowsk i Th is bo ok is su pport ed by the French Mini stry of Foreign Aff airs. as part of the Burgess programm e run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London. www.frenchbooknews.com



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