Whistler and His Circle
Whistler and His Circle

Author: Art Gallery of Ontario

Publisher: Gallery = Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Author: Peter Schjeldahl

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1683355296

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Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene. No other writer enhances the reader’s experience of art in precise, jargon-free prose as Schjeldahl does. His reviews are more essay than criticism, and he offers engaging and informative accounts of artists and their work. For more than three decades, he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective, an unexpected connection, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the reader on every page of this big, absorbing, buzzing book.

Henry James and American Painting
Henry James and American Painting

Author: Colm Tóibín

Publisher: Penn State the History of the

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271078526

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Explores how the novels of Henry James reflect the significance of the visual culture of his society, and how essential the language and imagery of the arts, as well as friendships with artists, were to James's writing.

The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot
The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot

Author: Lucy Paquette

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780578735221

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THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.

Facing the Late Victorians
Facing the Late Victorians

Author: Margaret Diane Stetz

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780874139921

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It examines, too, the portrait as a marker both of celebrity and of modernity, in an age that ushered in the present by defining itself through advertising, public relations, and commodification."--BOOK JACKET.

Wyeth
Wyeth

Author: Laura J. Hoptman

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 0870708317

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In 1948 Andrew Wyeth produced what would become one of the most iconic paintings in American art: a desolate landscape featuring a woman lying in a field, that he called "Christina's World." The woman in the painting, Christina Olson, lived in Cushing, Maine, where Wyeth and his wife kept a summer house. She suffered from polio, and was paralyzed from the waist down; Wyeth was moved to portray her when he saw her one day crawling through the field towards her house. "Christina's World" was to become one of the most well-loved and most scorned works of the twentieth century, igniting heated arguments about parochialism, sentimentality, kitsch and elitism that have continued to dog the art world and Wyeth's own reputation, even after the artist's death in 2009. An essay by MoMA curator Laura Hoptman revisits the genesis of the painting, discussing Wyeth's curious focus, over the course of his career, on a deliberately delimited range of subjects and exploring the mystery that continues to surround the enigmatic painting.