Painted Love

Painted Love
Author: Hollis Clayson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367296

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

Memoirs of an Egotist

Memoirs of an Egotist
Author: Stendhal
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1528765311

This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.

Collections Bernard-Franck, Bibliothèque, Livres Concernant le Costume Militaire, Uniformes Français Et Étrangers des Xviiie Et Xixe Siècles

Collections Bernard-Franck, Bibliothèque, Livres Concernant le Costume Militaire, Uniformes Français Et Étrangers des Xviiie Et Xixe Siècles
Author: Hôtel Drouot
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781397282842

Excerpt from Collections Bernard-Franck, Bibliothèque, Livres Concernant le Costume Militaire, Uniformes Français Et Étrangers des Xviiie Et Xixe Siècles: Albums, Dessins Originaux, Aquarelles, Règlements, Art Militaire, Mémoires; Histoire, Marine, Colonies, Littérature, Voyages, Manuscrits, Ouvrages sur Paris, Livres Satiriques, Caricatures, Théâtre; Collection des Grimaces de Boilly, en Couleurs Recueil très rare aussi complet et dans, une aussi belle condition. Adeline, après avoir cité les 36 premières planches, donne 'la notice suivante Cette série de costumes est considérable; malheureusement, nous ne pouvons en donner un catalogue complet. Les portefeuilles de la Bibliothèque Nationale eux - mèmes ne renferment pas la collection entière. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Forbidden Image

The Forbidden Image
Author: Alain Besançon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226044130

This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.