Author: James McNeill WhistlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: Correspondence and technical studies. Whistler-Way correspondence
Author: James McNeill WhistlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Museum Studies
Author: James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces
Author: Angelle M VinetPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483471233
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.
James McNeill Whistler
Author: James McNeill WhistlerPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
James McNeill Whistler was a leading figure in the revival of lithography in the late 19th century. His lithographs focus upon scenes and themes earlier explored in his paintings, etchings, and pastels. Using transfer paper, he created the effects of drawing, and with a few lines was able to convey a total picture. Working with the London printer Thomas Way and his son T. R. Way, Whistler initially hoped the lithographs would bring him a mass audience and financial security; later he hoped connoisseurs would collect his quiet, understated images as precious objects of enduring value. Steven Block began assembling his important collection in the late 1970s. It includes early experiments, portraits of friends and family, studio models, shop and street scenes, and sketches of the Thames and its bridges.
Light and Obscurity in Symbolism
Author: Deborah CibelliPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887595
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of light and darkness and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations. It also stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts of light and darkness in Symbolism, as well as the cohabitation and symbiosis of both, which are together or separately at the core of this movement.
Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
Author: Margaret Holben EllisPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of more than ninety-five texts tracing the development of the conservation of works of art on paper. Comprehensive and thorough, the book relates how paper conservation has responded to the changing place of prints and drawings in society. The readings include a remarkable range of historical selections from texts such as Renaissance printmaker Ugo da Carpi’s sixteenth-century petition to the Venetian senate on his invention of chiaroscuro, Thomas Churchyard’s 1588 essay in verse “A Sparke of Frendship and Warme Goodwill,” and Robert Bell’s 1773 piece “Observations Relative to the Manufacture of Paper and Printed Books in the Province of Pennsylvania.” These are complemented by influential writings by such figures as A. H. Munsell, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, along with a generous representation of recent scholarship. Each reading is introduced by short remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered, and the book is supplemented with a helpful bibliography. This volume is an indispensable tool for museum curators, conservators, and students and teachers of the conservation of works of art on paper.
Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914
Author: Jane TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
This alphabetically arranged volume covers all the major artistic developments in the USA from the Colonial period until 1914, with the start of World War I.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler
Author: Elizabeth Robins PennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Palaces in the Night
Author: Margaret F. MacDonaldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In "Palaces in the Night", MacDonald looks at a key period in James Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. 120 illustrations.
The Woman in White
Author: Margaret F. MacDonaldPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300254504
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together “[A] lavish volume. . . . Illuminating. . . . MacDonald’s deep research has . . . unearthed important new facts.”—Gioia Diliberto, Wall Street Journal In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler’s works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan’s partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s—a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Packed with new insights into the creation, marketing, and cultural context of Whistler’s iconic works, this study also traces their resonance for his fellow artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and Gustav Klimt.