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Author: Thomas E. Crow
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780300033540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how eighteenth century open Salon exhibitions by the French Academy encouraged the public view and evaluate art, and explains the influence of this public opinion on the painters of the day
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas E. Crow
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780300037647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, this is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl from Philadelphia who discovers she can pass for white.
Author: Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0271037857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Nina L. Dubin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1606060236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this timely and provocative study, Hubert Robert's paintings of urban ruins are interpreted as manifestations of a new consciousness of time, one shaped by the uncertainties of an economy characterized by the dread-inducing expansion of credit, frenzied speculation on the stock exchange, and bold ventures in real estate. As the favored artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersections between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. At the center of this lively narrative lie Robert's depictions of the ruins of Paris--macabre and spectacular paintings of fires and demolitions created on the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast range of materials, Futures & Ruins understands these artworks as harbingers of a modern appetite for destruction. The paintings are examined as expressions of the pleasures and perils of a risk economy. This captivating account--lavishly illustrated with rarely reproduced objects--recovers the critical significance of the eighteenth-century cult of ruins and of Robert's art for our times.
Author: Julie Anne Plax
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521642682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France, Julie Anne Plax engages in an interdisciplinary examination of several categories of Watteau's paintings--theatrical, military, fetes, and the art dealer. Arguing that Watteau consistently applied coherent strategies of representation aimed at subverting high art, she shows how his paintings toyed ironically with conventions and genres and confounded traditional categories. Plax connects these strategies to broader cultural themes and political issues that Watteau's art addressed throughout his career, thereby revealing the substantial unity of his oeuvre.
Author: Colta Ives
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1588395847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era’s great Impressionist artists. The renewed landscape gave crowded, displaced urban dwellers green spaces to enjoy, while suburbanites and country-dwellers began cultivating their own flower gardens. As public engagement with gardening grew, artists increasingly featured flowers and parks in their work. Public Parks, Private Gardens includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet, and Seurat. Many of these artists were themselves avid gardeners, and they painted parks and gardens as the distinctive scenery of contemporary life. Writing from the perspective of both a distinguished art historian and a trained landscape designer, Colta Ives provides new insights not only into these essential works, but also into this extraordinarily creative period in France’s history.
Author: Andrew McClellan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-10-26
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780520221765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.
Author: Humphrey Mayer Wine
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Haldane Macfall
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022192034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century is a detailed study of the lives, art, and significance of notable French pastellists of the 18th century. The book contextualizes the artists' works within the broader social and cultural milieu of the time and provides a comprehensive overview of the techniques, styles, and innovations that characterized their art. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
