On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cezanne is a collection of three essays, or better said lectures on beauty in context of those artists.
I didn't enjoy them very much. That is everything I can say about it.

Richard R. Brettell poses three questions which he seeks to answer in his art history book, "On Modern Beauty": Is beauty transitory? Is beauty immemorial? Is beauty beyond time? His book is a collection of three essays with the aim to answer these questions using modern works of art from Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, compared with other works of art from other eras and how they might answer these same questions.

It is a fascinating study on both the time these pieces were created and the essential questions posed to understand the meaning of art and the changes in time as different eras of art communicate new ideas.

I enjoyed the discussion Mr. Brettell engaged his readers in and learned a lot from this book.

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On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cezanne is a collection of three essays, or better said lectures on beauty in context of those artists.
I didn't enjoy them very much. That is everything I can say about it.