Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade Sayre Henry M.
Art historian Henry Sayre traces the origins of the term "value" in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art.How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively,…
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Art historian Henry Sayre traces the origins of the term "value" in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art.How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value"? In this book, Henry Sayre traces the origin of this usage to one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, douard Manet's Olympia.Art critics once described light and dark in painting in terms of musical metaphor--higher and lower tones, notes, and scales. Sayre shows that it was mile Zola who introduced the new "law of values" in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings by Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's usage of value was intentionally double coded--an economic metaphor for the political economy of slavery. In Manet's painting, Olympia
Manet and the Object of Painting