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S'està carregant… John Singer Sargent (1998 original; edició 1999)de Richard; Kilmurray [Sargent, Elaine John Singer]; Ormond (Autor)
Informació de l'obraJohn Singer Sargent de Elaine Kilmurray (1998)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Great, great book. I love Sargent. ( ) Splendid as a coffee table book, though as someone who doesn't know much about art I found that most of the commentary went over my head. This is probably not the book's fault, as it's surely intended more for displaying or browsing rather than reading straight through, and for people who aren't novices like me (if you are, I'd recommend having a glossary of terms and artists nearby). I also noticed that while most of the pictures reproduce well, a couple come out either too small or too dark for the details to come across. Still the artwork is almost uniformly fantastic, the overview of Sargent's career is very informative, and the book does make me want to see Sargent's oils, watercolors and murals in person. Three essays introduce the catalogue: John Singer Sargent: A Biographical Sketch and Sargent's Ark, both by Richard Ormon, Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the artist's great nephew; and Sargent in Public: On the Boston Murals by art historian Mary Crawford Volk. The Catalogue itself is divided into sections: Early Landscapes and Subject Pictures; Paris and the Salon; Impressionism; Portraiture in England and America; The Murals; Sargent the Watercolourist; Late Landscapes, Figure Studies and the war. The book concludes with a Chronology, Selected Bibliography and an Index. The Catalogue provides a comprehensive commentary on each picture. Many of the entries are illustrated; in total there are 171 colour images and 85 black and white; the black and white images include some photographs and the work of other artists. The beauty of this book is not just the reproductions, which are beautifully presented and many of which are half page or full page size, but also the accompanying commentaries printed alongside. A very handsome and well produced book. 12" x 9.6" (30.5 cm x 24.5 cm) 285 pages. Published 1998, ISBN 069100434X Hardback Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"The remarkable portraits for which John Singer Sargent is most famous are only one aspect of a career that included landscapes, watercolors, figure subjects, and murals. Even within portraiture, his style ranged from bold experiments to studied formality. And the subjects of his paintings were as varied as his styles, including the leaders of fashionable society, rural laborers, city streets, remote mountains, and the front lines of World War I. This book surveys and evaluates the extraordinary range of Sargent's work, and reproduces 155 of his paintings in color. It accompanies a spectacular international exhibition - the first major retrospective of the artist's career since the memorial exhibitions that followed his death." "Richard Ormond presents a biographical sketch and, in a second essay, reviews Sargent's development as an artist. Mary Crowford Volk explores his thirty-year involvement with painting murals - in particular the works at the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that Sargent regarded as his greatest achievement."--Jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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