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Renoir's Dancer

Catherine Hewitt
Renoir s Dancer Book PDF

Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250157645

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Renoir's Dancer by Catherine Hewitt Pdf

Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Suzanne was born into poverty in rural France, before her mother fled the provinces, taking her to Montmartre. There, as a teenager Suzanne began posing for—and having affairs with—some of the age’s most renowned painters. Then Renoir caught her indulging in a passion she had been trying to conceal: the model was herself a talented artist. Some found her vibrant still lifes and frank portraits as shocking as her bohemian lifestyle. At eighteen, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, future painter Maurice Utrillo. But her friends Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas could see her skill. Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working-class woman with no formal art training. Renoir’s Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Camille Laurens
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Book PDF

Author : Camille Laurens
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590519592

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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens Pdf

This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.

Suzanne

Elaine Todd Koren
Suzanne Book PDF

Author : Elaine Todd Koren
Publisher : Maverick Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780967235523

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Suzanne by Elaine Todd Koren Pdf

In Bohemian Paris of the 1800's comes the novelized biography of Suzanne Valadon, a tempestuous, beautiful French artist who was the model and mistress of the artists, Renoir and Lautrec. Lautrec discovered her artistic talent and sent her to Degas who became her mentor. She gave birth to an illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo whom she literally forced to paint to quell his alcoholism, making him an important artist. Suzanne scandalized Paris by her amorous liaison with her son's friend, twenty-one years her junior. Her determination to overcome the obstacles met by women painters foreshadowed the problems of women today.

Art is a Tyrant

Catherine Hewitt
Art is a Tyrant Book PDF

Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785786228

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Art is a Tyrant by Catherine Hewitt Pdf

WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2020 'Art is a Tyrant recounts [Bonheur's] life with no little brio.' Michael Prodger, The Times Books of the Year 2020 'A diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently sympathetic biography.' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur, from the author of the acclaimed Mistress of Paris and Renoir's Dancer. Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals. She shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa, Nathalie and Nathalie's mother bought a chateau and with Rosa's menagerie of animals the trio became one of the most extraordinary households of the day. Catherine Hewitt's compelling new biography is an inspiring evocation of a life lived against the rules.

Dancing in the Vortex

Vicki Woolf
Dancing in the Vortex Book PDF

Author : Vicki Woolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135853075

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Dancing in the Vortex by Vicki Woolf Pdf

Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere. This was the atmosphere which nurtured the artistic development of the remarkable dancer and choreographer Ida Rubinstein.This long-awaited biography gives us a unique insight into the life of a remarkable woman, responsible for a fascinating chapter of our artistic heritage. She was a chameleon, a diva, who lived many lives, overcoming the anti-Semitism of her times to enchant and captivate the highest of societies. Untrained as a dancer, Ida Rubinstein's charisma attracted collaborators such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Cocteau, Bakst, and Benois.

Wind Dancer

Jamie Carie
Wind Dancer Book PDF

Author : Jamie Carie
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805445343

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Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie Pdf

Free spirited Isabelle Renoir, captured by Indians during the American Revolution, falls in love with a fellow prisoner, the spy Samuel Holt. Only faith can set them free.

Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-length Painting

Colin B. Bailey
Renoir Impressionism and Full length Painting Book PDF

Author : Colin B. Bailey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : ART
ISBN : 0300181086

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Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-length Painting by Colin B. Bailey Pdf

This catalogue draws upon contemporary criticism, literature and archival documents to explore the motivation behind Renoir's full-length figure paintings as well as their reception.

The Mistress of Paris

Catherine Hewitt
The Mistress of Paris Book PDF

Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250120670

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The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt Pdf

Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret. “A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society.” —The New York Times Book Review Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future King Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no comtesse. Valtesse was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid backstreet among the dregs of Parisian society. Yet she transformed herself into an enchantress who possessed a small fortune, three mansions, fabulous carriages, and art the envy of connoisseurs across Europe. A consummate show-woman, she ensured that her life—and even her death—remained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more. Spectacularly evoking the sights and sounds of mid- to late nineteenth-century Paris in all its hedonistic glory, Catherine Hewitt’s biography tells, for the first time ever in English, the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who, though her roots were lowly, never stopped aiming high.

Chasing Degas

Eva Montanari
Chasing Degas Book PDF

Author : Eva Montanari
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0810938782

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Chasing Degas by Eva Montanari Pdf

Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet class. But one day he mistakenly leaves his paints in the dance studio and instead takes a young ballerina's bag, which contains her new tutu. And so the ballerina begins a great chase to find Degas before her recital. Full color.

Renoir and the Boy with Long Hair

Wendy Wax
Renoir and the Boy with Long Hair Book PDF

Author : Wendy Wax
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0764160419

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Renoir and the Boy with Long Hair by Wendy Wax Pdf

While at an exhibit of his father's paintings, Jean Renoir recalls how his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, refused to let him has his very long hair cut short as his father loved to paint the sunlight glinting off of it.

Suzanne Valadon

June Rose,Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon Book PDF

Author : June Rose,Suzanne Valadon
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 031219921X

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Suzanne Valadon by June Rose,Suzanne Valadon Pdf

"Suzanne Valadon" reproduces the artist's bold paintings and drawings, as well as letters and personal documents from a woman who left behind few written records. of color photos.

Plunder

Cynthia Saltzman
Plunder Book PDF

Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374710392

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Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman Pdf

One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.

Six Degas Ballet Dancers Cards

Edgar Degas
Six Degas Ballet Dancers Cards Book PDF

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0486295907

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Six Degas Ballet Dancers Cards by Edgar Degas Pdf

Six masterly studies by great French painter, painstakingly reproduced in postcard form: The Dance Examination, The Dance Class, Dancer in a Rose Dress, The Rehearsal, 2 more. Captions.

The Ballets Russes and Beyond

Davinia Caddy
The Ballets Russes and Beyond Book PDF

Author : Davinia Caddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107014404

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The Ballets Russes and Beyond by Davinia Caddy Pdf

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

Barbara Ehrlich White
Renoir An Intimate Biography Book PDF

Author : Barbara Ehrlich White
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500774038

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Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara Ehrlich White Pdf

A major new biography of this enduringly popular artist by the world’s foremost scholar of his life and work Expertly researched and beautifully written by the world’s leading authority on Auguste Renoir’s life and work, Renoir fully reveals this most intriguing of Impressionist artists. The narrative is interspersed with more than 1,100 extracts from letters by, to, and about Renoir, 452 of which come from unpublished letters. Renoir became hugely popular despite great obstacles: thirty years of poverty followed by thirty years of progressive paralysis of his fingers. Despite these hardships, much of his work is optimistic, even joyful. Close friends who contributed money, contacts, and companionship enabled him to overcome these challenges to create more than 4,000 paintings. Renoir had intimate relationships with fellow artists (Caillebotte, Cézanne, Monet, and Morisot), with his dealers (Durand-Ruel, Bernheim, and Vollard) and with his models (Lise, Aline, Gabrielle, and Dédée). Barbara Ehrlich White’s lifetime of research informs this fascinating biography that challenges common misconceptions surrounding Renoir’s reputation. Since 1961 White has studied more than 3,000 letters relating to Renoir and gained unique insight into his personality and character. Renoir provides an unparalleled and intimate portrait of this complex artist through images of his own iconic paintings, his own words, and the words of his contemporaries. “Barbara White is a biographer of courage, seriousness and unrelenting honesty. She has read and dissected about 3,000 letters about Renoir written by him, his friends, his family, as well as the newspapers of the day. Practically every member of the Renoir family has entrusted their personal documents to her – a pledge of trust totally deserved. Whenever I am asked a question about Auguste, I write to Barbara to ask her opinion or call on her knowledge, since she has become an indisputable reference for me. She is always careful and verifies facts and contexts by every route possible. The Renoir family, and Auguste himself, are very lucky that Barbara is so passionate about her subject, and I feel personally lucky to know her. I thank her from the bottom of my heart for this work of a lifetime – a magnificent success. I am very pleased that her book has been edited by the quality editors at Thames & Hudson, as it will remain a point of reference for many generations to come.” – Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter of Auguste Renoir, granddaughter of his eldest son Pierre, and daughter of Renoir’s grandson Claude Renoir, Jr.), June 7, 2017