http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/ Copyright 2006 Sat, 08 Jan 2005 23:13:25 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype//?v=1.03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Matt Popper was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey on 4/20/86, lived in the glorious suburb of Bloomfield until the age of four, and then moved on with his family to the ten-mile by ten-mile farm that is Tewksbury New... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/was_the_executi.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/was_the_executi.html Sat, 08 Jan 2005 23:13:25 -0500 I would like to acknowledge my writing partners, Cindi Textor and Roger Mason, for assisting me during the revision process, particularly with regard to the structure of this essay. I would also like to thank Kati Lovasz from the Princeton... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/works_cited.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/works_cited.html Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Edouard Manet truly did despise illusion â€" as well as anything else that convoluted, manipulated, or corrupted the truth or reality of a situation. He was a man obsessed with unadulterated, unaltered truth, and sought to display reality in his... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/selfportrait.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/selfportrait.html Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:02:55 -0500 Manet was not the only artist (although he was the only impressionist) to depict the unique but significant American naval engagement off Cherbourg. Henri Durand-Brager, an official painter for French naval expeditions throughout the mid nineteenth-century, and James Bryant,... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/nonmanet_nonunf.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/nonmanet_nonunf.html Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:07:12 -0500 Seeking a diversion from oppressive monotony as a pre-law student, Manet decided to enroll in France's merchant marine to fulfill his early predilection for the sea. In his letters chronicling the four-month journey across the Atlantic on board the Havre... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/letters_from_th_1.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/letters_from_th_1.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 03:28:42 -0500 Manet had retained a distinct fascination for both the sea and for maritime activity since his late childhood â€" according to his confidant Antonin Proust, it was around the sea at Boulogne where Manet "se ressaisit (re-seized himself)" (Proust,... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/manets_boulogne.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2005/01/manets_boulogne.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:17:03 -0500 Utilizing this contradiction, this tension, between word and image in his Kearsarge paintings as a basis for comparison, Manet may quite possibly have distanced his professed political views from those present in The Execution of Maximilian three years later. If... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/about_the_autho.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/about_the_autho.html Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:36:34 -0500 Finally, in The Battle of the "Kearsarge" and the "Alabama," Manet's pro-Napoleonic sentiment is most overwhelmingly apparent, suggesting the most pronounced diversion from his stated anti-Napoleonic sentiment. Here, the distanced, neglected presence of the Kearsarge is punctuated most overwhelmingly in... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/the_battle_of_t.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/the_battle_of_t.html Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:19:42 -0500 Indeed, this unfavorable, distanced depiction of the U.S.S. Kearsarge in the previous watercolor is even more pronounced in Manet's oil paint version of the very same work The Kearsarge at Boulogne, painted slightly later in 1864 (Wilson-Bareau, 50). In... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/manet_the_secon.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/12/manet_the_secon.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:08:47 -0500 This contradiction between Manet's professed politics and those present on canvas, this tension between word and image, is evident in the first of Manet's Civil War depictions, the 1864 watercolor study The Kearsarge at Boulogne (Wilson-Bareau, 56). Here the... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/11/manet_and_the_a.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/11/manet_and_the_a.html Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:32:23 -0500 Louis Napoleon's Imperialist Politics and the Kearsarge In order to establish exactly why Manet's distant depictions of the Kearsarge contradict his political philosophy, it is first necessary to establish how Louis Napoleon's involvement in Mexico is pertinent to the Boulogne... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/11/manets_politics.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/2004/11/manets_politics.html Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:20:33 -0500