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Strapless
Author | : Deborah Davis |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2004-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585423361 |
The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau's dress dangling from her shoulder, suggesting either the prelude to or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation irreparably damaged, Gautreau retired from public life, destroying all the mirrors in her home. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal.
The Story of Drawing
Author | : Susan Owens |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-09-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300277601 |
Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practised drawing – whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process. While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders – from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama – as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinise the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1046 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, The Fogg Art Museum
Author | : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |