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Book House Proud

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  • Author : Gail S. Davidson
  • Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780910503907
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book House Proud written by Gail S. Davidson and published by Cooper Hewitt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, it became highly fashionable for aristocratic and upper-class homeowners in Europe to commission watercolor paintings of their domestic interiors and to collect them in albums to be passed on to children, given as gifts to visiting royalty, and displayed in drawing rooms. House Proud commemorates the recent gift of a group of eighty-five nineteenth-century watercolor interior drawings - the largest collection of its kind in America - to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of home. AUTHOR: Gail S. Davidson, Ph.D., is curator and head of drawings, prints, and graphic design department at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Her published articles and books include Rococo: The Contining Curve, 1730-2008 and Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. Floramae McCarron-Cates is associate curator of the drawongs, prints, and graphic design department at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She is the co-author of Frederic Church, Winslow Homwe, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. Charlotte Gere is a nineteenth-century decorative arts specialist who has pbulished numerous scholarly books and articles on a wide variety of subjects, including Nineteenth-Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh, An Album of 19th-century Interiors, The House Beautiful, and Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser. ILLUSTRATIONS 125 images

Book Nineteenth  and Twentieth century European Drawings

Download or read book Nineteenth and Twentieth century European Drawings written by Richard R. Brettell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century European Paintings  Drawings and Watercolors

Download or read book Nineteenth Century European Paintings Drawings and Watercolors written by Christie's East (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century European Paintings  Drawings  Watercolors and Sculpture

Download or read book Nineteenth Century European Paintings Drawings Watercolors and Sculpture written by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Essence of Line

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  • Author : Jay McKean Fisher
  • Publisher : Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0271026820
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The Essence of Line written by Jay McKean Fisher and published by Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely seen drawings and watercolors by some of the most influential French artists of the nineteenth century are the subject of this richly illustrated publication from The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 100 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. The BMA and the Walters have combined holdings of more than 900 French drawings from the nineteenth century, one of the nation's strongest and richest collections of French art from this period. The publication also includes works from the Peabody Institute Art Collection of the Maryland State Archives. The Essence of Line offers the first comprehensive discussion of the formation of these collections and their significance for the history of French art. The catalogue includes essays by Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston, and Cheryl K. Snay that provide insights into the artistic, commercial, and social functions that drawings served for their creators and collectors, as well as how collecting patterns influenced the development of modernism. Conservator Kimberly Schenck bridges the worlds of the collector and of the artist by examining the production and the use of drawing materials in an epoch of radical changes in technique as well as style. Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, this book presents a panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online database of more than 900 nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of these Baltimore museums.

Book French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century  Before impressionism

Download or read book French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Before impressionism written by Lorenz Eitner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Gallery's collection encompasses the neoclassicism of Jacques-Louis David as well as the naturalism of the Barbizon painters. The works of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, such as the Gallery's famous portrait of Madame Moitessier, are precursors to the classical style that dominated later in the century. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's verdant landscapes, Honoré Daumier's political satires, and Jean-François Millet's realism are also included in this richly illustrated volume.

Book An Outline Of 19th Century European Painting

Download or read book An Outline Of 19th Century European Painting written by Lorenz Eitner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artists life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time. The author covers a wide range of material and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Grard, Gurin, Prudhon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake, Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Igres, Gricault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Czanne.

Book Making Waves

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  • Author : Laurinda S. Dixon
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9782503584409
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Making Waves written by Laurinda S. Dixon and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Waves: Crosscurrents in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Art points the way toward futher appreciation and understanding of an era that still resonates strongly in our contemporary culture. Making Waves: Crosscurrents in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Art honours the life work of Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, who continues to lead the field in the study of the art of the nineteenth century. The twenty-eight essays in this book are authored by some of her many friends, students, and colleagues, including seasoned academics and those at the beginning of their careers; museum professionals and private-sector arts administrators; and American, European, and Chinese scholars. Following Petra Chu's example, and avoiding opaque theoretical language and extended technical analysis, authors present original ideas, based primarily on the study of objects and their documented historical contexts. Though their methodologies are diverse, their purposes are clear and their language straight-forward. The essays thoughtfully and respectfully address the solid reality of the nineteenth century in all of its complex (and sometimes repugnant) sensibilities. They disrupt traditional art historical categories and methodologies, and highlight topics that have been long ignored and overlooked. Making Waves demonstrates, in no uncertain terms, that art historians still have much to say to each other and to their readers, and that nineteenth-century art has only begun to be explored in all its complexity and variety. Laurinda S. Dixon is Professor Emerita of Art History at Syracuse University, New York. Her scholarship considers the intersection of art and science- particularly alchemy, herbalism, medicine, astrology, and music- from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. She is the author of many articles, book chapters, and ten books.

Book European Drawings

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  • Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book European Drawings written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Masters of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book German Masters of the Nineteenth Century written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1981 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Challenging Past and Present

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  • Author : Ellen P. Conant
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-02-28
  • ISBN : 0824840593
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Challenging Past and Present written by Ellen P. Conant and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during the course of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by a political event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both the preceding Edo (1615–1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868–1912) eras have shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creating an art-historical void that the former view as a period of waning technical and creative inventiveness and the latter as one threatened by Meiji reforms and indiscriminate westernization and modernization. Challenging Past and Present, to the contrary, demonstrates that the period 1840–1890, as seen progressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turn made possible the creative achievements of the twentieth century. The first group of chapters takes as its theme the diverse cultural currents of the transitional period, particularly as they applied to art.The second section deals with the inconsistent yet determinedly pragmatic courses pursed by artists, entrepreneurs, and patrons to achieve a secure footing in the uncertain terrain of early Meiji. Further chapters look at how painters and sculptors sought to absorb and integrate foreign influences and reinterpret their own stylistic mediums.

Book Manet and Modern Beauty

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  • Author : Gloria Groom
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2019-06-25
  • ISBN : 1606066048
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Manet and Modern Beauty written by Gloria Groom and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning examination of the last years of Édouard Manet's life and career is the first book to explore the transformation of his style and subject matter in the 1870s and early 1880s. The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafés. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet’s elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist’s unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting Jeanne (Spring), a selection of the artist’s correspondence, a chronology, and more, Manet and Modern Beauty brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist’s oeuvre.

Book Drawing from the Modern

Download or read book Drawing from the Modern written by Jodi Hauptman and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 30-Aug. 29, 2005.

Book Dictionary of Artists  Models

Download or read book Dictionary of Artists Models written by Jill Berk Jiminez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.

Book Catalogues of Sale

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  • Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Catalogues of Sale written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Download or read book Nineteenth century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute written by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and published by Clark Art Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind." This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully documented catalogue of the Institute's collection of European paintings. The quality of this collection reflects the founder's philosophy in its inclusion of masterpieces as diverse as William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr (1873) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's A Box at the Theater (1880); works by academic painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme; Barbizon painters such as Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet; and the Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas. More recent acquisitions include Théodore Rousseau's Farm in the Landes (1844-67) and Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral (1894), and works by John Constable and J. M. W. Turner. Published on the 100th anniversary of Sterling Clark's first purchase of a European painting, these handsome volumes document each of the 374 paintings in the collection, with essays by prominent scholars, detailed bibliographic and art historical apparatus, technical notes, and over 450 color illustrations. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Book European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art  by Artists Born in Or Before 1865  Illustrations

Download or read book European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in Or Before 1865 Illustrations written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: