Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.
Making Up the Rococo
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.
Baroque & Rococo
Author: Marco Bussagli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402759253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402759253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.
Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368259
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368259
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Antoine Watteau
Author: Helmut Borsch-Supan
Publisher: H.F. Ullmann
ISBN: 9780841600867
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: H.F. Ullmann
ISBN: 9780841600867
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Jessica Priebe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000470385
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000470385
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art
Author: Jennifer D. Milam
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810879522
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810879522
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art.
European Art of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Daniela Tarabra
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369218
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369218
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
World of Art Series Rococo To Revolution
Author: Michael Levey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500200505
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Michael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as his theme the exciting evolution--and revolution--that took place in art from Watteau's birth to the death of Goya. 154 illus., 22 in color.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500200505
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Michael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as his theme the exciting evolution--and revolution--that took place in art from Watteau's birth to the death of Goya. 154 illus., 22 in color.
Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300197004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300197004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.