Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children - Hardcover

Dayer Gallati, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821261681 ISBN 13: 9780821261682

Verlag: Bulfinch, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gallati Barbara Dayer

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Reseña del editor:

Sargent's reputation is often defined by his remarkable achievements as a painter of sophisticated society portraits. However, as this innovative examination of his career reveals, he created a significant number of children's portraits and genre paintings featuring children. The title of the book makes ironic reference to Charles Dickens' famous novel Great Expectations, and is used in this book to suggest how Sargent's paintings of children related to the expectations associated with representations of childhood in the art and literature of Sargent's day. The book also traces how Sargent ultimately advanced childhood as an artistic subject.The book contains five essays by three notable curators and professors of fine arts, and is illustrated with Sargent's truly stunning and often lesser-known paintings of children. Some are portraits of his own children. Included as an interesting comparison are images of other artists' paintings of children. Sargent family photographs, some of which are prevously unpublished, are also featured.

Biografía del autor:

Barbara Dayer Gallati is Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and is on the art history faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Bulfinch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0821261681
• ISBN 13: 9780821261682
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256