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Author : Robert R. Wark Publisher : University of Washington Press Page : 164 pages File Size : 40,9 Mb Release : 2001 Category : Painting ISBN : UCSD:31822031556442
The Revolution in Eighteenth-century Art by Robert R. Wark Pdf
Written by the collection's former curator, this text discusses ten pictures from the Huntington collection which demonstrate the wide variety of styles and forms produced in Britain during the period between 1740 and 1840. Some of the works examined include Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy and Richard Wilson's River Scene with Bathers. The volume is lavishly illustrated throughout with color photographs of the ten pictures and other works by the artists and their contemporaries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite literally frowned upon. Individuals were fatalistic about tooth loss, and their open mouths would often have been visually repulsive. Rules of conduct dating back to Antiquity disapproved of the opening of the mouth to express feelings in most social situations. Open and unrestrained smiling was associated with the impolite lower orders. In late eighteenth-century Paris, however, these age-old conventions changed, reflecting broader transformations in the way people expressed their feelings. This allowed the emergence of the modern smile par excellence: the open-mouthed smile which, while highlighting physical beauty and expressing individual identity, revealed white teeth. It was a transformation linked to changing patterns of politeness, new ideals of sensibility, shifts in styles of self-presentation - and, not least, the emergence of scientific dentistry. These changes seemed to usher in a revolution, a revolution in smiling. Yet if the French revolutionaries initially went about their business with a smile on their faces, the Reign of Terror soon wiped it off. Only in the twentieth century would the white-tooth smile re-emerge as an accepted model of self-presentation. In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry, to tell a unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of western civilization.
Visualizing the Revolution by Rolf Reichardt,Hubertus Kohle Pdf
The authors explore the complex, many-faceted visual culture of the French Revolution, which took place in a period characterised by the creation of a new visual language steeped in metaphor, symbol and allegory.
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art by Linda Walsh Pdf
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’ Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources
Author : Elise Goodman Publisher : University of Delaware Press Page : 180 pages File Size : 50,8 Mb Release : 2001 Category : Art and society ISBN : 9780874137408
Art and Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Elise Goodman Pdf
This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth-century visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume offers nine contextual and cross-disciplinary essays that engage with a rich panoply of discourses ranging from art criticism to biography, to collecting and the art market, to art theory and practice and the institutions that shaped them, to beauty and fashion, sociopolitical and philosophical issues, gender studies, patronage, iconography, and print culture.
Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Art and Culture by Gillian Perry Pdf
Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities and collective conditions of women as producers of art and culture are investigated, together with analysis of representation and the ways in which it might be gendered. This illustrated book should make an important contribution to debates on representation, constructions of sexuality and women as producers.
Philip Conisbee,Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Author : Philip Conisbee,Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) Publisher : Ngw-Stud Hist Art Page : 328 pages File Size : 49,8 Mb Release : 2007 Category : Art ISBN : UOM:39015067713449
French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century by Philip Conisbee,Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) Pdf
"Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly. The essays represent a wide range of critical and historical perspectives, from traditional archival research to postructuralist criticism."--Page 4 de la couverture
French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution by Katharine Baetjer Pdf
This publication catalogues The Met’s remarkable collection of eighteenth-century French paintings in the context of the powerful institutions that governed the visual arts of the time—the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, the Académie de France à Rome, and the Paris Salon. At the height of their authority during the eighteenth century, these institutions nurtured the talents of artists in all genres. The Met’s collection encompasses stunning examples of work by leading artists of the period, including Antoine Watteau (Mezzetin), Jean Siméon Chardin (The Silver Tureen), François Boucher (The Toilette of Venus), Joseph Siffred Duplessis (Benjamin Franklin), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Broken Eggs), Hubert Robert (the Bagatelle decorations), Jacques Louis David (The Death of Socrates), the Van Blarenberghes (The Outer Port of Brest), and François Gérard (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord). In the book’s introduction, author Katharine Baetjer provides a history of the Académie, its establishment, principles, and regulations, along with a discussion of the beginnings of public art discourse in France, taking us through the reforms unleashed by the Revolution. The consequent democratizing of the Salon, brought about by radicals under the leadership of Jacques Louis David, encouraged the formation of new publics with new tastes in subject matter and genres. The catalogue features 126 paintings by 50 artists. Each section includes a short biography of the artist and in-depth discussions of individual paintings incorporating the most up-to-date scholarship.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Margaret Morgan Grasselli Publisher : Unknown Page : 210 pages File Size : 55,8 Mb Release : 2003 Category : Art ISBN : UOM:39015057596234
Colorful Impressions by National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Margaret Morgan Grasselli Pdf
"An indispensable addition to the literature, this informative publication is not only one of very few books available in English on the subject, but it also reproduces for the first time all the featured prints in full colour. Authors examine the history, marketing, and collecting of these prints, as well as the tools, techniques, and papers used in making them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Art in a Season of Revolution by Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf
"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects."--"Journal of the Early Republic"
