books.google.co.uk - A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's painting. His flattened, sometimes fragmented forms appear to exist absentmindedly in a world removed from speech. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in a book that shows us Manet as we see him--naturally, in pictures that articulated their...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Manet_s_Silence_and_the_Poetics_of_Bouqu.html?id=kIa6oR2A61IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareManet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets
