Augustin Pajou

Augustin Pajou

Author: James David Draper

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0870998404

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This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part.


Augustin Pajou - Royal Sculptor

Augustin Pajou - Royal Sculptor

Author: James David Draper

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780300085792

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This publication is the first major study of the French Neoclassical sculptor Augustin Pajou (1730-1809) in almost a century, and it is the only work about him in English. Here the artist's work is discussed and illustrated in depth, and the artistic, courtly, and aristocratic circles in which he worked are considered in detail. This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part. This publication, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Musee du Louvre, Paris, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, presents to both the scholar and the general reader a great artist who has at last received his due. The volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a detailed chronology, a short history of the artist's critical reputation, an exhaustive bibliography, and a complete index.


Augustin Pajou

Augustin Pajou

Author: James David Draper

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9780870998416

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This publication is the first major study of the French Neoclassical sculptor Augustin Pajou (1730-1809) in almost a century, and it is the only work about him in English. Here the artist's work is discussed and illustrated in depth, and the artistic, courtly, and aristocratic circles in which he worked are considered in detail. This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part. This publication, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Musee du Louvre, Paris, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, presents to both the scholar and the general reader a great artist who has at last received his due. The volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a detailed chronology, a short history of the artist's critical reputation, an exhaustive bibliography, and a complete index.


Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

Author: Michael Levey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780300064940

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Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galante and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.


The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Ronit Milano

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9004276254

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In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history. The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was inextricably tied to the formation of modern selfhood and to the construction of individual identity during the Enlightenment, while positioning both sitters and viewers as part of a collective of individuals who together formed French society. In analyzing the contribution of the portrait bust to the construction of interiority and the formulation of new gender roles and political ideals, this book touches upon a set of concerns that constitute the very core of our modernity.