Download or read book French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin written by Carter E. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest private collections of master drawings of French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, more than 450 in all. This beautiful volume publishes the 59 most important drawings, each reproduced in rich duotone with a comprehensive essay.
Download or read book French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin written by Carter E. Foster and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art last fall and now at the Dahesh Museum in New York, this catalog focuses upon the French drawings in Muriel Butkin's highly specialized collection which she has promised to the Cleveland Museum. To assemble her diverse yet nicely integrated set of drawings, Butkin started buying 18th-century French drawings when they were affordable. In the mid-1970s, with the guidance of art historian Gabriel Weisberg, she expanded her collection to include 19th-century French drawings. These drawings were counter to the mainstream impressionist and postimpressionist taste of the time and focused more on academic French subject matter such as life drawings, portraits, or compositional studies. In the preface, Butkin herself reinforces her taste by saying that drawings are much more personal and spontaneous than paintings, often demonstrating the artistic process. Foster, curator of drawings at the Cleveland Museum, and other scholars present a well-researched volume that contributes new information to a very specialized field of art history. It is greatly disappointing, however, that the bulk of the reproductions are in black and white, often missing the subtly colored tones in many of the drawings. Nonetheless, this is recommended for museum and academic libraries that support graduate programs in art history. 183 b/w illustrations
Download or read book Watteau Music and Theater written by Antoine Watteau and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Fran ois Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth Century France written by Jessica Priebe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
Download or read book Monet to Dal written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive presentation of this collection from the Cleveland Museum of Art, includes paintings by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Boudin and Manet among other innovative artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist period. Each painting is presented with descriptions detailing the artist's motifs and context of the work in the Impressionist era. The title, with its essays and over 100 colour plates, provides a thorough focus of the dramatic artistic development of the century between 1850 and 1950 through the remarkable pieces of this collection. 100 colour Illustrations
Download or read book Rembrandt and His Time written by Marian Bisanz-Prakken and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curator of Dutch drawings at the Albertina surveys the work of Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema, Philips Koninck, and others, presenting the various forms of art that dominated the scene in seventeenth-century Holland. 112 colour illustrations
Download or read book Peggy Preheim written by Peggy Preheim and published by Gregory R Miller & Co. This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York-based artist Peggy Preheim is known for her minutely detailed, miniscule graphite drawings on otherwise blank sheets of paper, creating a mood and atmosphere specific to her work. Her drawings are influenced by the small sixteenth century panel paintings of the Low Countries, while their lush black-and-white tonalities evoke early found photographs on which they are often based. Published on the occasion of Preheim's first retrospective, which originates at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, this monograph is the artist's first and features rich reproductions of works from throughout her 20-year career, including sculpture and photography. Noted designer Daphne Geismar's elegant design perfectly captures the uncanny qualities of Preheim's style. The volume includes essays by curator Carter Foster and critic Gregory Volk, as well as a collection of poems and imaginary letters written in response to selected works by Aldrich Director Harry Philbrick. Published in collaboration with The Aldrich.
Download or read book Edmond Lachenal His Legacy written by Martin P. Eidelberg and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDMOND LACHENAL AND HIS LEGACY documents the shifting styles of this important French Ceramists and also the styles of his contemporaries. With over 183 colour plates, the publication extends not only to the work of his master, Theodore Deck, but also includes pieces by some of his disciples, his sons Raoul and Jean-Jacques Lachenal, and his assisstant Emile Decoeur. This first ever presentation of Lachenal's career includes scholarly essays, period photographs and thoughtful descriptions of each of the 71 pieces represented. Placing the work of Lachenal in context with his peers and followers reveals not only the rich artistic culture in which he lived and worked, but also the series of subtle transitions that evolved in French ceramics from the middle of the 19th century until after the Second World War. ILLUSTRATIONS: 190 colour & 25 b/w
Download or read book American Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Views of Russia Russian Works on Paper written by and published by Sphinx Fine Art. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Lover s Travel Guide to American Museums written by Judith Swirsky and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 750 listings, this travel guide to American art museums provides a directory of permanent collections and a year of special exhibitions. Organized by state and city by city, there is practical information about each venue's hours, ticket prices, handicap accessibility, and facilities, in addition to concise descriptions of collections and special shows. A calendar of temporary exhibits is provided for each museum. There are additional indexes of travelling exhibition itineraries and exhibits featuring Acoustiguide tours.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Watteau Chardin and Fragonard written by Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Download or read book Passion for Drawing written by Pierre Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 100 color plates and 180 comparative illustrations, with bibliography, index, and biographies of the 66 artists represented in the exhibition. Explores three centuries (1615-1900) of French drawing beginning with the late mannerist style and continuing through the triumph of Impressionism. The collection was assembled by Louis-Antoine and Ve?ronique Prat of Paris. Works by Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, David, Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Degas, Ce?zanne, and Seurat are presented. This work also includes a selection of French school drawing -- landscapes, portraits, as well as mythological, literary, and biblical subjects -- executed in a variety of media, including red and black chalk, graphite, and pen and ink. Eighteenth-century sketches, known as "pense?es" or ?first thoughts? are featured along with celebrated drawings, such as Nicolas Poussin s masterpiece of the 1640s, The Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, and Magdalene in the Desert by Claude Lorrain.
Download or read book On Exhibit written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
