Taking time - chardin's boy building a house of cards: Chardin's House of Cards (Waddesdon Manor) - Softcover

Collectif

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907372334 ISBN 13: 9781907372339

Verlag: HOLBERTON, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

This book accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon that will unite Chardin's four paintings of a boy with a house of cards for the first time (loans come from the Musee du Louvre, Paris; National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), allowing us to examine Chardin's treatment of the subject in the context of his fascination with themes of play, childhood and adolescence.

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Full of repetition, pendants and series, this catalogue allows the reader to scrutinize some of Chardin's greatest works, and to follow the artist's exploration of some of his most arresting subjects. Prints by Pierre Filloeul, Antoine Marcenay de Ghuy and others demonstrate the shifts in appearance and meaning that Chardin's card-house compositions underwent through transposition from painting to engraving. The prints also help reconstruct some of the occasional pairings in which Chardin's figure paintings were staged, whether on the walls of the Salon or in the cabinets of private collectors. The pendants include two of the most famous of all Chardin's figure paintings, Lady Taking Tea and Girl with a Shuttlecock. Essays in self-containment and stillness, these works invite us to consider the nature of attention - the attention of the painter, his human subjects and ourselves.

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• Verlag: HOLBERTON
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907372334
• ISBN 13: 9781907372339
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128