Author: Susan L. Siegfried
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300063325
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Boilly has long been recognized as the most significant painter of everyday life in Napoleonic France. His portraits and genre scenes provide delightful illustrations of the period. In this book, Susan Siegfried argues that Boilly's paintings should be read not just for their documentary detail but also for their wider cultural significance - for the light they shed on social and sexual tensions of the era.
Author: Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Publisher: National Gallery
ISBN: 9781857096439
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Published to accompany the exhibition "Boilly: scences of Parisian life" The National Gallery, London 28 February - 19 May 2019"--Colophon.
Author: Smith College. Museum of Art
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555951832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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This newest volume in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series about leading collections of master drawings presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full-color, including many versos, from one of the finest college museums in America.
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Author: Anthony Halliday
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719056185
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This work examines the effect of the French Revolution on portrait painting. Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France. But most portraits were produced for private consumptions, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The Revolution endowed private values with an inprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394298
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 13, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012.
Author: Charlene D. Long
Publisher: Charlene Long
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Author: Bridget Alsdorf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166382
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art Gawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street life through the eyes of curious viewers known as badauds. In contrast to the singular and aloof bourgeois flâneur, badauds were passive, collective, instinctive, and highly impressionable. Above all, they were visual, captivated by the sights of everyday life. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of new research, Gawkers excavates badauds as a subject of deep significance in late nineteenth-century French culture, as a motif in works of art, and as a conflicted model of the modern viewer. Bridget Alsdorf examines the work of painters, printmakers, and filmmakers who made badauds their artistic subject, including Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Carrière, Charles Angrand, and Auguste and Louise Lumière. From morally and intellectually empty to sensitive, empathetic, and humane, the gawkers these artists portrayed cut across social categories. They invite the viewer’s identification, even as they appear to threaten social responsibility and the integrity of art. Delving into the ubiquity of a figure that has largely eluded attention, idling on the margins of culture and current events, Gawkers traces the emergence of social and aesthetic problems that are still with us today.
Author: Smith College. Museum of Art
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555951948
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Smith College art professors Davis and Leshko showcase 100 paintings and sculptures from their institution's vaunted collection, encompassing Americans from Gilbert Stuart to Louise Nevelson and Europeans from Corot to Henry Moore. In the introduction, how and why Smith became steward of such a fine body of work is ascribed to the school's high-minded mission and its generous alumni donors. The rest of the book is divided into two sections, one American and the other European. Each individual full-color reproduction is accompanied by an informative one-page essay and a brief reading list. During several years of renovations at Smith, the items featured in this book are traveling to diverse sites, which should increase the book's appeal. 118 colour & 1 b/w illustrations
Author:
Publisher: Charlene Long
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 977
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