All that is Glorious Around Us
Author : Pennsylvania State University. Museum of Art
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Hudson River school of landscape painting
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Author : Pennsylvania State University. Museum of Art
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Hudson River school of landscape painting
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Author : T.J. Clark
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0525520511
From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spectacles avidly appropriated by a new kind of "consumer": clerks and shopgirls, neither working class nor bourgeois, inventing their own social position in a system profoundly altered by their very existence. Emancipated and rootless, these men and women flocked to the bars and nightclubs of Paris, went boating on the Seine at Argenteuil, strolled the island of La Grande-Jatte—enacting a charade of community that was to be captured and scrutinized by Manet, Degas, and Seurat. It is Clark's cogently argued (and profusely illustrated) thesis that modern art emerged from these painters' attempts to represent this new city and its inhabitants. Concentrating on three of Manet's greatest works and Seurat's masterpiece, Clark traces the appearance and development of the artists' favorite themes and subjects, and the technical innovations that they employed to depict a way of life which, under its liberated, pleasure-seeking surface, was often awkward and anxious. Through their paintings, Manet and the Impressionists ask us, and force us to ask ourselves: Is the freedom offered by modernity a myth? Is modern life heroic or monotonous, glittering or tawdry, spectacular or dull? The Painting of Modern Life illuminates for us the ways, both forceful and subtle, in which Manet and his followers raised these questions and doubts, which are as valid for our time as for the age they portrayed.
Author : Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Art
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Author : Amelia Peck
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : 1588390020
"This publication, which accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of about one hundred designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other interior furnishings by Wheeler and her associates."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Edwin Howland Blashfield
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Mural painting and decoration
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Author : E.P. Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 1963
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Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Art
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Includes section "The great calendar of American exhibitions."
Author : Susan G. Larkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300088523
What Argenteuil in the 1870s was to French Impressionists, Cos Cob between 1890 and 1920 was to American Impressionists Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and their followers. These artists and writers came together to work in the modest Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut, testing new styles and new themes in the stimulating company of colleagues. This beautiful book is the first to examine the art colony at Cos Cob and the role it played in the development of American Impressionist art. During the art-colony period, says Susan Larkin, Greenwich was changing from a farming and fishing community to a prosperous suburb of New York. The artists who gathered in Cos Cob produced work that reflects the resulting tensions between tradition and modernity, nature and technology, and country and city. The artists' preferred subjects -- colonial architecture, quiet landscapes, contemplative women -- held a complex significance for them, which Larkin explores. Drawing on maritime history, garden design, women's studies, and more, she places the art colony in its cultural and historical context and reveals unexpected depth in paintings of enormous popular appeal.
Author : Hildegard Cummings
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
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Author : Ronald Anderson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786710324
Examines both the life and work of the nineteenth-century painter, dispelling the usual portrait of an irascible dandy at war with critics and other artists, and assesses his reputation as a pivotal figure in the arts and his influence on the work of fellow artists. Reprint.