Download or read book Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism written by Arden Reed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines art history and literary criticism in a joint study of the canonical "fathers" of modernism. Arden Reed argues that modernism is a matter of genre blending, hybridization and movements between text and image. Focusing on key works, Reed reveals how Manet and Flaubert actively mix and contaminate their work- Flaubert with images, Manet with narration. Reed extends the argument to the twentieth century, claiming we cannot understand twentieth century modernism while remaining locked within single disciplines.