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Release : 1966
Genre : Art
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Author : Hollis Clayson
Release : 2003-10-30
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Painted Love by : Hollis Clayson
Download or read book Painted Love written by Hollis Clayson. This book was released on 2003-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Author : Richard Thomson
Release : 1995
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Edgar Degas by : Richard Thomson
Download or read book Edgar Degas written by Richard Thomson. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L'Attente), which he made sometime between 1880 and 1882, about midway in his career. In this fascinating monograph, author Richard Thomson explores this brilliant work in detail, revealing both the intricacies of its composition and the source of the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. For Waiting is, indeed, an extraordinary object both in its craftsmanship and color and, perhaps most especially, in its aura of ambiguity and even mystery.
Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Release : 1988
Genre : Drawing
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Book Synopsis European Drawings by : J. Paul Getty Museum
Download or read book European Drawings written by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Annenberg Collection by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book The Annenberg Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.
