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From David to Ingres: Early 19th-Century French Artists
by Jane Turner  Book News Annotation Like others in the series, this volume is derived from (of which Turner was general editor), first published in 1996 in 34 volumes; these small, themed volumes are convenient, and are great values. Here, some 300 in-depth biographies explore the life...
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Paintings in the Musee D'Orsay
by Serge Lemoine Publisher Comments Situated in the heart of Paris, the Musée d'Orsay boasts the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the world, unparalleled in its diversity and quality. Since its opening in 1986 in a spectacularly renovated train station...
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The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse
by Eik (edt) Kahng Synopsis Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its...
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Painters in Paris, 1895-1950
by William S Lieberman Publisher Comments In the first half of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed center of the art world, and artists from East and West were drawn to the city. Today, at museums around the globe, paintings by Picasso, Braque, Leger, Modigliani, Chagall, Matisse, and...
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The Artisans and Guilds of France
by Francois Icher Synopsis Founded in the Middle Ages, the craftsmen's guilds of France oversaw the stonecutters, plasterers, woodworkers, and other skilled artisans who built their country's great cathedrals, chateaux, and other monuments. Today, these ancient guilds have adapted...
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18th Century French Painting
by Dominique Jarasse Synopsis French eighteenth-century painting is characterized by its immense variety, ranging from the "grand manner" -- history painting -- to so-called minor genres such as still-life and portraiture. Artists such as Boucher and Fragonard drew inspiration from...
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Paintings in the Musee D'Orsay
by Robert Rosenblum Book News Annotation This spectacular catalog features some 830 exquisite full-color reproductions done during the period 1848 to 1914. Includes examples of the French Impressionists, the Academics against whom they rebelled, and the Post-Impressionist era. Rosenblum is a...
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Kader Attia
by Kader Attia Synopsis Edited by Yves Aupetitallot, Thierry Prat. Text by Jean-Louis Pradel, Tami Katz-Freiman....
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The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
by Tamar Garb Publisher Comments The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its...
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Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth-And Twentieth-Century French Paintings from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
by Vivien Hamilton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-209) and index....
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Jazz Age in France
by Charles A Riley Publisher Comments France between the wars saw a dynamic mix of larger-than-life personalities and unconventional ideas, audacity and genius, elegance and edge. Artists, musicians, writers, dancers, composers, the American, French, and other European characters who...
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
by Dan Franck Publisher Comments "A fascinating read... Franck has painted vivid word pictures of that era and collected numerous vignettes about the private lives of those who dramatically influenced art as we now know it." --Gail Cooke, Arizona Daily Star....
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Romanticism and Its Discontents
by Anita Brookner Synopsis In this lavishly illustrated book, Anita Brookner examines the masters of French Romantic painting in the context of 19th century poetry, literature, and criticism. Color and b&w illustrations....
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Gloria Victis!: Victors and Vanquished in French Art 1848-1910
by Flemming Friborg Publisher Comments Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen With a Beauty All Its Own "I called this collection the Glyptotek to demonstrate that it was not a museum with the usual need for scientific order and completeness, where art works often stand freezing, alien to each...
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French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century (Studies in the History of Art)
by Philip Conisbee Publisher Comments Imagined scenes of daily life by Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, and other 18th-century French artists are the subject of this important new study. The wide range of these artists’ works encompasses domestic subjects, portraits and fashion...
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Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France
by Richard Rand Publisher Comments Paintings by such celebrated eighteenth-century artists as Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, and Boilly have long been admired for their charming and intimate subjects--f-tes galantes, pastorals, tableaux de mode, middle-class domestic...
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Judgement of Paris (06 Edition)
by King Publisher Comments While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision...
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From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th-Century French Artists
by Jane Turner Book News Annotation Some 300 in-depth biographies explore the life and work of painters who brought about the artistic revolutions of realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism in late 19th-century France. Each entry includes a bibliography. Arrangement of entries is...
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Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art--Practices & Debates)
by Francis Frascina Synopsis The first volume in this series focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. The book demonstrates how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical and economic...
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Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930
by Jody Blake Synopsis In France of the early twentieth-century, the term"...
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