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Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France. In Sheer Presence, Marni Reva Kessler demonstrates how this ubiquitous garment and its visual representations knot together many of the precepts of Parisian life.

Sheer Presence The Veil in Manets Paris

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9780816647828, 978-0816647828
      ISBN10: 0816647828

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      Book Synopsis

      Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France. In Sheer Presence, Marni Reva Kessler demonstrates how this ubiquitous garment and its visual representations knot together many of the precepts of Parisian life.

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