{"product_id":"splendours-and-miseries-nienke-bakker-9782081372740","title":"Splendours and Miseries: Images of Prostitution in France, 1850-1910","description":"This work traces the artists and photographers who--whether fascinated or repelled by prostitution in all its forms--captured the realities and fantasies of this ambiguous world. From the scandalous \u003ci\u003eOlympia\u003c\/i\u003e by Manet to Degas's \u003ci\u003eThe Absinthe Drinker\u003c\/i\u003e, from Toulouse-Lautrec and Munch's forays into brothels to the bold figures and caricature portraits of Rouault, van Dongen, and Picasso, this book foregrounds how the shadowy domain of prostitution played a central role in the development of modern painting. In nine chapters, these paintings, sculptures, lithographs, sketches, photographs, and press clippings are given context within the moral framework of an era when prostitution was considered an unavoidable--or enticing--evil, powerfully evoking the ambivalent place held by prostitutes in the midst of nascent modernity, from the splendours of the demimondaines to the miseries of the working-girl pierreuses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nienke Bakker,Isolde Pludermacher,Marie Robert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 2081372746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782081372740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flammarion-Pere Castor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.90h x 9.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Nienke Bakker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48446051713279,"sku":"9782081372740","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2e4da56-3bd1-4b3e-8e6b-66d2721967c5.jpg?v=1777222306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/splendours-and-miseries-nienke-bakker-9782081372740","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}