Picasso Looks At Degas

Author : Elizabeth Cowling
Publisher : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picasso Looks at Degas written by Elizabeth Cowling and published by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum. This book was released on 2010 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso Looks at Degas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 13 June-12 September 2010, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 14 October 2010-16 January 2011."--T.p. verso.

Author : Dorothy M. Kosinski
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300081688
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist and the Camera written by Dorothy M. Kosinski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog accompanying an exhibtion organized by the Dallas Museum of Art describes how artists at the turn of the century used photography in their paintings and sculpture

Author : H. G. E. Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486139360
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degas' Drawings written by H. G. E. Degas and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.

Author : George T. M. Shackelford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500093627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degas and the Nude written by George T. M. Shackelford and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

Author : William Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Sculpture written by William Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Flynn Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615553849
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edgar Degas, the Private Impressionist written by Robert Flynn Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol S. Eliel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degas to Picasso written by Carol S. Eliel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sebastian Smee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994817
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Rivalry written by Sebastian Smee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary—one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses. Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas were close associates whose personal bond frayed after Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso swapped paintings, ideas, and influences as they jostled for the support of collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein and vied for the leadership of a new avant-garde. Jackson Pollock’s uninhibited style of “action painting” triggered a breakthrough in the work of his older rival, Willem de Kooning. After Pollock’s sudden death in a car crash, de Kooning assumed Pollock's mantle and became romantically involved with his late friend’s mistress. Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon met in the early 1950s, when Bacon was being hailed as Britain’s most exciting new painter and Freud was working in relative obscurity. Their intense but asymmetrical friendship came to a head when Freud painted a portrait of Bacon, which was later stolen. Each of these relationships culminated in an early flashpoint, a rupture in a budding intimacy that was both a betrayal and a trigger for great innovation. Writing with the same exuberant wit and psychological insight that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for art criticism, Sebastian Smee explores here the way that coming into one’s own as an artist—finding one’s voice—almost always involves willfully breaking away from some intimate’s expectations of who you are or ought to be. Praise for The Art of Rivalry “Gripping . . . Mr. Smee’s skills as a critic are evident throughout. He is persuasive and vivid. . . . You leave this book both nourished and hungry for more about the art, its creators and patrons, and the relationships that seed the ground for moments spent at the canvas.”—The New York Times “With novella-like detail and incisiveness [Sebastian Smee] opens up the worlds of four pairs of renowned artists. . . . Each of his portraits is a biographical gem. . . . The Art of Rivalry is a pure, informative delight, written with canny authority.”—The Boston Globe

Author : Dorothy Kosinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The artist and the camera, Degas to Picasso written by Dorothy Kosinski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Cowling
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781855147607
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picasso Portraits written by Elizabeth Cowling and published by National Portrait Gallery Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From first to last, Picasso's prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. B y 1900 Picasso was producing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles - symbolist, cubist, neoclassica l, surrealist, expressionist. B ut however extreme his departur e from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism. For all his radical originality, Picasso remained in constant dialogue with the art of the past and his portraits often alluded to canonical masterpieces, chosen for their appropriateness to the looks and personality of his subject. Treating favourite Old Masters as indecorously as his intimate friends, he enjoyed caricaturing them and indulging in fant asies about their sex lives that mirrored his own obsession with the interaction of eroticism and creativity. His late suites of free ' variations ' after Vel�zquez's Las Meninas and Rembrandt's The Prodigal Son , both of which involve self - portraiture, allow ed him to ruminate on the complex psychological relationship of artist and sitter, and continu ities between past and present. When Picasso depicted people in his intimate circle, the nature of his bond with them inevitably influenced his interpretation. T he focus of this book is not, however, Picasso's life story but his creative process, and, although following a broadly chronological path, its chapters are structured thematically. Issues addressed in depth include Picasso's exploitation of familiar pose s and formats, his sources of inspiration and identification with favourite Old Masters, the role of caricature in his expressive conception of portraiture, the relationship between observation, memory and fantasy, critical differences between his portray al of men and women, and the motivation behind his defiance of decorum and the extreme transformation of his sitter's appearance.