The Conversation Piece

2017 Art and society

Author : Kate Retford
Release : 2017
Genre : Art and society
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Book Rating : 807/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Conversation Piece written by Kate Retford. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex multi-figured compositions and intricate narratives, filling their paintings with representations of socially, nationally, and temporally precise customs. Paying particular attention to the vibrant (and at times fabricated) interior and exterior settings in these works, Kate Retford discusses the various ways that the conversation piece engaged with the rich material culture of Georgian Britain. The book also explores how these portraits served a wide array of interests and concerns among familial networks and larger social groups. From codifying performances of politeness to engaging in cross-cultural exchanges, the conversation piece was a complex and nuanced expression of a multifaceted society. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Conversation Piece

2013-05-02 Fiction

Author : Molly Keane
Release : 2013-05-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Conversation Piece written by Molly Keane. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN AND NANCY MITFORD 'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN 'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL 'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL When Oliver visits Pullinstown, he is introduced to wild days of hunting and shooting, and to characters like his cousins, with their passion for horses and trickery, and Sir Richard, elderly, but a match for his headstrong offspring. In this early novel by Molly Keane, the high romance and disarray of the vanished Anglo-Irish world is evoked with humour, nostalgia, and undercurrents of powerful feeling. The author has also written under the pseudonym, M. J. Farrell.

Christmas Conversation Piece

2007-12-18 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Paul Lowrie
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Download or read book Christmas Conversation Piece written by Paul Lowrie. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What one Christmas tradition would you never want to give up? If you could spend Christmas anywhere in the world, where would you most want to be? If you could have visited the Christ child just as the Three Kings did, what would you have brought as a gift? You've been chosen to host a sensational Christmas celebration on TV: What three guests would you choose to make it the best Christmas special ever? The Christmas Conversation Piece offers these and many other questions to pose and ponder during a season of both deep reflection and unabashed merriment. This charming volume--the perfect stocking stuffer--will provide you, your family, and your friends with twelve days of surprising and amusing Yuletide questions. Who would you most like to meet under the mistletoe? Your answer just may change by Christmas Eve!

Conversation Piece

1934 English drama

Author : Noel Coward
Release : 1934
Genre : English drama
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Download or read book Conversation Piece written by Noel Coward. This book was released on 1934. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Conversation Piece

2009 Art

Author : Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
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Download or read book The Conversation Piece written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 'Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, it developed to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the eighteenth century in the masterpieces created by Johan Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III." "This new publication accompanies the first exhibition on this subject for over thirty years, presenting early Dutch and Flemish genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany himself. It also provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of the 'conversation' in eighteenth-century English art to its seventeenth-century European predecessors." --Book Jacket.

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