List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author 1
Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 25
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an Allegory of Nostaligia 47
Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 71
Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu) 91
The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet's Bar 115
On Manet's Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergere 142
Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 164
Dumbshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference 189
Privilege and the Illusion of the Real 214
In Front of Manet's Bar: Subverting the "Natural" 233
Manet's Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel 250
The "View from Elsewhere": Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire 278
A Select Bibliography for Methodological Issues in Art History 315
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