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Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet

Description

In a delightfully different account of art and politics during the Second Empire, Friedrich sketches a landscape that encompasses Napoleon III, Flaubert, Wagner, Proust, Degas, Zola, Monet, Hugo, Manet, and many others, both famous and infamous. Photographs.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-23
Summary: "A great read!"

This is a marvelous book and a great companion to Ross King's "Judgment of Paris". Friedrich's serendipitous approach means one is never sure what he's going to examine next: is this sentence about Offenbach going to lead to a whole exposition of that composer's place in 19th century French music and society? Is Manet's syphilitic condition going to be mentioned in passing or is the author going to expound on the origins of the disease, its treatments at the time and its ghastly symptoms, pre antibiotics? Friedrich is hardly attention-deficit though, he treats each subject with due care and unearths all kinds of interesting historical tidbits. Manet is the connecting theme throughout and his life is examined closely as are the travails and triumphs of his impressionist followers: Degas, Morisot, Monet, Pissarro at al. Highly recommended.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-09-04
Summary: "Frothy, Fizzy and Disposable"

Reading about France and particularly Paris in the 19th century is about as much fun as you can have with history. There is Napoleon, Louis Philippe, the great novelists like Flaubert and Hugo, the Revolution of 1848 which aided and abetted Marxism and then there is the deliciously ridiculous Louis Napoleon and his twenty year "empire." Think Schwarzenegger as an American dictator and maybe you get close to the second Napoleon era.

But with impressionism and in particular, Edward Manet we have the clear stirrings of modernism and Friedrich takes that as his subject. Or so it seems. The question of modernism is clearly raised but hardly tackled and Manet comes somewhat alive in these pages as do many other people but not really the history. Its as if the people are characters in a historical drama but the sets are crudely painted cardboard. This a romp through a colorful, eventful period and nothing more.

I found Ross King's "The Judgement of Paris" which covers similar ground, much more compelling because he grounded his narrative in a conflict between Manet and Meissonier which made not just the personalities but the events described come alive. He also did much better at conveying the horror of the Prussian siege of Paris during 1871.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-12-01
Summary: "A user friendly history"

This book is a fascinating and fun read about the people and culture of Manet's time. It may not be for someone looking for technical historical accuracy or for an indepth review of Manet the artist, but if you're looking to learn about this period of time and enjoy the ride, this one's for you.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2005-01-12
Summary: "the People Magazine version"

This book is mostly a collection of spicy anecdotes, with a little historical narrative thrown in. If you're looking for any kind of in-depth analysis of the era, or of Manet's art, look elsewhere; if you want a light read, it's OK.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2003-07-02
Summary: "A flawed history of a fascinating time."

Paris during the reign of Louis Napoleon was a fascinating period, and its figures were larger than life: Napoleon, Eugenie, Berlioz, Wagner, Hugo, Zola, Manet, Monet and the "great horizontals". Americans, English, Germans, Italians and Russians went to Paris for culture, art and, let's face it, a little bit of sex. Unfortunately, this period needs a first-rate historian and Otto Friedrich is not that. You read "Olympia" in spite of the writer, as the history of a fascinating time and the men and women who made it great.