About the Author

Dianne W. Pitman is an independent scholar who lives in Canyon, California.

Reviews

“This superb book provides a more nuanced, more critical, and documentarily reliable interpretation of the brief career of Frédéric Bazille than has been managed by any other scholar to date. The author’s view is that Bazille managed far more than a supporting role in the explosive decade of the 1860s in France. In Bazille’s oscillations between modernity and the art of the past, Pitman detects a certain cumulative pattern which she finds suggestive of a distinctly personal agenda and one which shows Bazille to be an indexical figure of a very special sort.”—Kermit Champa,Brown University