TY - BOOK ID - 77898723 TI - Alias Olympia : a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire PY - 1992 SN - 0801468248 0801468256 9780801468254 0801486092 9780801486098 9780801468247 1322501556 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Feminist art criticism KW - Women art historians KW - Artists' models KW - Art criticism KW - Feminist criticism KW - Art historians KW - Women historians KW - Models, Artists' KW - Models (Persons) KW - Biography. KW - Lipton, Eunice. KW - Manet, Edouard, KW - Meurent, Victorine. KW - Manet, Edouard KW - Manė, Eduard KW - Manet, Éduard KW - מאנה, אדוארד, KW - Relations with women. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898723 AB - Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death-or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent-and about Lipton herself. ER -