The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits - Fauve, Cubist, Dada, Surrealist, and Expressionist - unlike any seen before.This remarkable book focuses on a rich ...
Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, this study analyzes the changes in modern art between the outbreak of World War I and the Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs of 1925. It explores how the Parisian avante-garde was deeply involved in French society and the aftermath of the Great War.
The years of John F. Kennedy's rise to political power, his administration and his tragic death evoke extraordinarily vivid memories - images of the photogenic young president, his political campaigns, his dramatic oratorical style, his beautiful family and the momentous events of those times. These images, which were broadcast by the new and ...
The Côte d'Azur has been a magnet for artists since Renoir and Monet took a two-week painting vacation there in 1883. Kenneth Silver's lavishly illustrated book surveys the achievements of artists from the 1880s to the late 20th century.
Born near Minsk in White Russia, the painter Chaim Soutine (1894-1943) created his major works in France between the two World Wars. He is identified with the School of Paris, the group of artists, many of them foreign-born and Jewish, who lived and worked in the French capital between the wars. Known as a "painter's painter", Soutine worked with ...
Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), celebrated photographer, and one of the greatest practitioners the medium has ever known, discovered the Riviera with his first camera in the company of his wealthy family when he was just eleven years old. For the rest of his life Lartigue was a regular visitor to the Cote d'Azur, taking many of his finest ...
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Norman L. Kleeblatt, Chaim Soutine, Kenneth E. Silver, Romy Golan, N.Y.) Jewish Museum (New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum
Born near Minsk in White Russia, the painter Chaim Soutine (1894-1943) created his major works in France between the two World Wars. He is identified with the School of Paris, the group of artists, many of them foreign-born and Jewish, who lived and worked in the French capital between the wars. Known as a "painter's painter", Soutine worked with ...
The Côte d'Azur has been a magnet for artists since Renoir and Monet took a two-week painting vacation there in 1883. Kenneth Silver's lavishly illustrated book surveys the achievements of artists from the 1880s to the late 20th century.
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