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Cézanne's Other
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Cézanne's Other

  • Categories: Art

"In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the twenty-four portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. In Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense, Susan Sidlauskas breaks new ground, focusing on these paintings as a group and looking particularly at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. She argues that Cezanne sidestepped the conventional goals of portraiture-he avoids representing a consistent, identifiable physiognomy or conventional feminine postures and does not portray the subject's inner life-making lack of fixedness itself his s...

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

  • Categories: Art

"This book is the first to examine the extraordinary Goya collection--which includes more than 1,400 prints, a drawing, and three paintings--in the Norton Simon Museum. The collection includes prints from various series and editions treating a range of subjects, such as religious iconography, landscapes, portraits, and social satire. Lushly illustrated and authored by a distinguished Goya scholar, this catalogue is an essential guide to a treasure trove of the artist's works"--

Maurice Denis, Earthly Paradise, 1870-1943
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Maurice Denis, Earthly Paradise, 1870-1943

  • Categories: Art

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) is perhaps the last great French painter of his generation awaiting rediscovery, after his lifelong friends Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. With them, Denis co-founded the Japanese-influenced group known as the Nabis, eventually becoming its principal theoretician. In the 1890s, he remained at the forefront of the movement, and was also closely associated with Symbolism, but his work was tremendously wide-ranging in scope and style. After 1900, his links with Matisse and Cézanne, and his calls for a new classicism--based on his love of Trecento and Quattrocento murals--made him one of the most respected voices in European art. Denis' work ran the gamut of the visual arts, from easel painting to engraving and the decorative arts; after 1918, he worked increasingly on decorative projects in both religious and non-religious contexts. Reproducing many major works for the first time, this thorough survey supplies a definitive volume on one of nineteenth-century France's finest painters.

Strategic Ambiguity: The Obscure, Nebulous, and Vague in Symbolist Prints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 73

Strategic Ambiguity: The Obscure, Nebulous, and Vague in Symbolist Prints

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-12
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Exhibition catalogue for Strategic Ambiguity: The Obscure, Nebulous, and Vague in Symbolist Prints, December 6, 2012 to March 1, 2013 at the La Salle University Art Museum. The prints in this exhibition demonstrate how the Symbolist fascination with ambiguity seen in their choices of subject matter (i.e. half-human, half-animal hybrids such as harpies and sphinxes, gender ambiguity and androgyny) extended to formal strategies of representation that obscure form as well as content. This exhibition places Symbolist art in the context of Modernism by focusing on the ways in which artists experimented with print media and explored technical means of suggesting formal ambiguity (i.e. flattening, ...

The Last Days of Pompeii
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

The Last Days of Pompeii

  • Categories: Art

Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection explore Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media--from paintings, prints, an...

Cézanne et Paris
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 48

Cézanne et Paris

  • Categories: Art

eune homme ambitieux, désireux de devenir peintre, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) vient pour la première fois à Paris en 1861, entraîné par son ami d’enfance Émile Zola. Il y fréquente le Louvre où il étudie les maîtres anciens et dessine les modèles qui posent à l’académie Suisse. Mais Cézanne reste insensible aux charmes de la capitale dont la fréquentation est néanmoins à l’époque indispensable à toute carrière artistique ; tout au long de sa vie, il alternera régulièrement les séjours à Paris et en Provence, ne prenant cependant que très rarement Paris pour sujet de sa peinture. Paris offre de multiples tentations auxquelles le peintre se montre réfractaire, tr...

Antonio Saura
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Antonio Saura

La muestra presenta 117 obras, la mayoría sobre papel, realizadas entre 1949 y 1997, que ofrecen la imagen de la mujer a través de diferentes series: rostros, bustos, cuerpos femeninos tendidos o mujeres-paisaje, damas en tecnicolor, retratos imaginarios, narraciones, superposiciones; cabezas y cuerpos, en su mayoría desnudos, atormentados, monstruosos, radicales; figuras individuales o sumidas en la muchedumbre; una galería de retratos que convierten a la mujer en soporte estructural para la acción.

Matisse’s Poets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Matisse’s Poets

  • Categories: Art

Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a painter, print maker, and reader in the field of ...

Tarsila Do Amaral
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Tarsila Do Amaral

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Actar D

.".. se publica con motivo de la exposiciaon Tarsila do Amaral, Fundaciaon Juan March, Madrid, Del 6 de febrero al 3 de mayo de 2009"--P. 286.