Author: Nancy K. Anderson
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Sept. 14, 2008-Jan. 4, 2009, and at the Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 26-May 24, 2009.
Author: George de Forest Brush
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Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Author: Nancy Douglas Bowditch
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992449
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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One of three chronologically arranged catalogues that document the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of American paintings.
Author: David Bernard Dearinger
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555950293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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This is the first installment of a fully illustrated catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.
Author: Charles Henry Caffin
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Elizabeth L. Lee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150134689X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, Health-is the thing! Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio. The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum, and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy. The first study to address the place of organic disease-cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis-in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, this book looks at how well-known works of art were marked by disease and argues that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late 19th century.
Author: Charles Holme
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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