Suzanne Valadon

Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Author : June Rose,Suzanne Valadon
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Author : Elaine Todd Koren
Publisher : Maverick Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Author : Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135959210

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Dictionary of Artists' Models by Jill Berk Jiminez Pdf

The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.

Author : June Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Montmartre (Paris, France)
ISBN : UCSD:31822027882570

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Mistress of Montmartre by June Rose Pdf

This biography tells the dramatic story of Suzanne Valadon and is illustrated with her work. It describes her difficult early life, her stormy twenties as a model for Renoir and others, her success and the love affairs that scandalised society.

Author : Caitlin Horrocks
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316316934

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The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks Pdf

This "enthralling" debut novel and Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year circles the life of eccentric composer Erik Satie in La Belle Époque Paris and examines love, family, genius, and the madness of art (New York Times Book Review). Erik Satie begins life with every possible advantage. But after the dual blows of his mother's early death and his father's breakdown upend his childhood, Erik and his younger siblings -- Louise and Conrad -- are scattered. Later, as an ambitious young composer, Erik flings himself into the Parisian art scene, aiming for greatness but achieving only notoriety. As the years, then decades, pass, he alienates those in his circle as often as he inspires them, lashing out at friends and lovers like Claude Debussy and Suzanne Valadon. Only Louise and Conrad are steadfast allies. Together they strive to maintain their faith in their brother's talent and hold fast the badly frayed threads of family. But in a journey that will take her from Normandy to Paris to Argentina, Louise is rocked by a severe loss that ultimately forces her into a reckoning with how Erik -- obsessed with his art and hungry for fame -- will never be the brother she's wished for. With her buoyant, vivid reimagination of an iconic artist's eventful life, Caitlin Horrocks has written a captivating and ceaselessly entertaining novel about the tenacious bonds of family and the costs of greatness, both to ourselves and to those we love.

Author : Jennifer Higgie
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474613804

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The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie Pdf

Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of the most well-respected art critics at work today.

Author : Daniel Marchesseau,Fondation Pierre Gianadda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Painters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019199319

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Suzanne Valadon by Daniel Marchesseau,Fondation Pierre Gianadda Pdf

Author : John Storm
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1388181150

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The Valadon Drama by John Storm Pdf

Suzanne Valadon, born in 1865 of an erratic mother and an anonymous father, was by the very circumstances of birth destined to live an unconventional life. Her volatile nature, her sensuality found fallow ground in the surging, twisted streets of Montmartre, where her mother, lost in an alcoholic fog, sought oblivion. Her early antics as an outrageous gamine did little to indicate the creative and emotional richness that were to distinguish the later life of this tiny and vivid person. By the time Suzanne was in her teens, she not only was a favorite model of the Montmartre artists, but had found a means of expression in her won passionate and spontaneous painting. As a close friend of Lautrec and Degas, as the mistress of Renoir, Satie and countless other artists, and as the wife of the much younger Utter, the fabric of her life consisted of two dominant threads -- the love of painting and the love of love. Alternating between extreme affluence and poverty, it was not until her son, Maurice Utrillo, was in his teens that she became obsessed by her role as mother. Convinced that her son was the greatest living painter, tormented by his maniacal urge toward self destruction, she attacked the problems of motherhood with the same intensity with which she pursued admiration. Her battle for Maurice's sanity and love, however, was waged too late, and she met her ultimate defeat in a lonely, wistful withdrawal into herself and the past. A full and dramatic biography of a woman, her son, and the rich if confused climate which nurtured them. Of particular interest to enthusiasts of the impressionist and post impressionist school, John Storm's careful factual recapitulation is easily as dramatic and entertaining as the available fictional treatments of artists' lives. (Kirkus Review)

Author : Suzanne Valadon,Lefevre Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754077983751

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Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938) by Suzanne Valadon,Lefevre Gallery Pdf

Author : Stefan Bollmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : UCSC:32106019864849

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Women who Read are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann Pdf

"This book brings together a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs for women reading by a diverse range of artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each image is accompanied by a commentary explaining the context in which it was created - who the reader is, her relationship with the artist, and what she was reading. This book will appeal to book lovers and anyone interested in the depiction of women in art."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Patricia Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226510182

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Passionate Discontent by Patricia Mathews Pdf

"Art historian Patricia Mathews examines the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France. Along the way, she illuminates the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. She analyzes contemporary cultural assumptions as well as theories such as social Darwinism, biological determinism, and degeneracy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : PaulaJ. Birnbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536714

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Women Artists in Interwar France by PaulaJ. Birnbaum Pdf

Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities illuminates the importance of the Soci? des Femmes Artists Modernes, more commonly known as FAM, and returns this group to its proper place in the history of modern art. In particular, this volume explores how FAM and its most famous members?Suzanne Valadon, Marie Laurencin, and Tamara de Lempicka?brought a new approach to the most prominent themes of female embodiment: the self-portrait, motherhood, and the female nude. These women reimagined art's conventions and changed the direction of both art history and the politics of their contemporary art world. FAM has been excluded from histories of modern art despite its prominence during the interwar years. Paula Birnbaum's study redresses this omission, contextualizing the group's legacy in light of the conservative politics of 1930s France. The group's artistic response to the reactionary views and images of women at the time is shown to be a key element in the narrative of modernist formalism. Although many FAM works are missing?one reason for the lack of attention paid to their efforts?Birnbaum's extensive research, through archives, press clippings, and first-hand interviews with artists' families, reclaims FAM as an important chapter in the history of art from the interwar years.

Author : Brigitte Mai-Thuy Tran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Male nude in art
ISBN : UCR:31210013667892

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Suzanne Valadon by Brigitte Mai-Thuy Tran Pdf

Author : Dan Franck
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802197405

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Bohemian Paris by Dan Franck Pdf

“[An] epic account of life and loves among artists and writers in Paris from belle époque to world slump.” —William Feaver, The Spectator A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture—particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the flowering of fauvism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism. In Bohemian Paris, Dan Franck leads us on a vivid and magical tour of the Paris of 1900–1930, a hotbed of artistic creation where we encounter Apollinaire, Modigliani, Cocteau, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, working, loving, and struggling to stay afloat. Sixteen pages of black-and-white illustrations are featured. “Franck spins lavish historical, biographical, artistic, and even scandalous details into a narrative that will captivate both serious and casual readers . . . Marvelous and informative.” —Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal