Another book about Manet?
Surely there is a glut by this stage, just as there is a glut of books about Monet and about Cezanne. This is a good, and not over condensed study-cum-biography, with tolerably good reproductions Manet, however, has become overburdened by commentators particularly since his art scarcely lends itself to this. Alan Knell insists on his fashionable, almost Post modernist "instability of meaning", but I doubt very much if that is why Manet's pictures are enjoyed by millions.