We would like to congratulate HAA Graduate Student Tai Mitsuji for winning the 2023–2024 Bowdoin prize.
Presenting unseen and unpublished light-sheet enhanced images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Tai Mitsuji’s paper demonstrates how Édouard Manet’s double-sided drawing, Barricade (1871), produced a historical palimpsest and portrait of both political change and stasis at the end of the Second French Empire and beginning of the Third Republic. It argues that Manet’s composition was itself a barricade, providing structure for the artist during a period of collective political...
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