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.
"Los Angeles artist Sylvia Shap has claimed as her domain the art of portraiture. Her life-sized portraits of contemporary men, women, and children are precisely rendered and confrontational in the sense that her subjects always look out directly at the viewer. We notice immediately that the model is cognizant of their presence in Shap's compositions." -- Jim Edwards, page 11.
A detailed study of painting and sculpture in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Germany and the Netherlands noting influences and styles as well as drawing attention to the work of lesser-known painters and sculptors.
Brice Marden: A Retrospective ISBN 0-87070-446-X / 978-0-87070-446-8 Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 248 color. / U.S. $60.00 CDN $72.00 October / Art
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Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR