A Passion For Renoir Sterling And Francine Clark Collect 1916 1951
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A Passion For Renoir Sterling And Francine Clark Collect 1916 1951
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
A Passion For Renoir Sterling And Francine Clark Collect 1916 1951 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Painting categories.
A Passion For Renoir
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language : en
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Release Date : 1996
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A Passion For Renoir
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Author : Steven Kern
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 1996
A Passion For Renoir written by Steven Kern and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.
Strong-willed, gritty, opinionated, emotional, irreverent, he always followed his credo, "Look, look and look again.".
The Clarks Of Cooperstown
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Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009-03-12
The Clarks Of Cooperstown written by Nicholas Fox Weber and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America’s greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, and for decades enemies of each other. He tells the story, as well, of the two generations that preceded theirs, giving us an intimate portrait of one of the least known of America’s richest families. He begins with Edward Clark—the brothers’ grandfather, who amassed the Clark fortune in the late-nineteenth century—a man with nerves of steel; a Sunday school teacher who became the business partner of the wild inventor and genius Isaac Merritt Singer. And, by the turn of the twentieth century, was the major stockholder of the Singer Manufacturing Company. We follow Edward’s rise as a real estate wizard making headlines in 1880 when he commissioned Manhattan’s first luxury apartment building. The house was called “Clark’s Folly”; today it’s known as the Dakota. We see Clark’s son—Alfred—enigmatic and famously reclusive; at thirty-eight he inherited $50 million and became one of the country’s richest men. An image of propriety—good husband, father of four—in Europe, he led a secret homosexual life. Alfred was a man with a passion for art and charity, which he passed on to his four sons, in particular Sterling and Stephen Clark. Sterling, the second-oldest, buccaneering and controversial, loved impressionism, created his own museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts—and shocked his family by marrying an actress from the Comédie Française. Together the Sterling Clarks collected thousands of paintings and bred racehorses. In a highly public case, Sterling sued his three brothers over issues of inheritance, and then never spoke to them again. He was one of the central figures linked to a bizarre and little-known attempted coup against Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency. We are told what really happened and why—and who in American politics was implicated but never prosecuted. Sterling’s brother—Stephen—self-effacing and responsible—became chairman and president of the Museum of Modern Art and gave that institution its first painting, Edward Hopper’s House by the Railroad. Thirteen years later, in an act that provoked intense controversy, Stephen dismissed the Museum’s visionary founding director, Alfred Barr, who for more than a decade had single-handedly established the collection and exhibition programs that determined how the art of the twentieth century was regarded. Stephen gave or bequeathed to museums many of the paintings that today are still their greatest attractions. With authority, insight, and a flair for evoking time and place, Weber examines the depths of the brothers’ passions, the vehemence of their lifelong feud, the great art they acquired, and the profound and lasting impact they had on artistic vision in America.
The Grove Encyclopedia Of American Art
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Author : Joan M. Marter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011
The Grove Encyclopedia Of American Art written by Joan M. Marter and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Architecture categories.
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Orientalist Aesthetics
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Author : Roger Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-02-03
Orientalist Aesthetics written by Roger Benjamin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-03 with categories.
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugène Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-à-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages.
Renoir Landscapes 1865 1883
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Author : Colin B. Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Renoir Landscapes 1865 1883 written by Colin B. Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Landscape painting, French categories.
This stunning book, published to accompany a major touring exhibition, examines Renoir's landscape art in depth, demonstrating that he was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age.
Renoir At The Theatre
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Author : Auguste Renoir
language : en
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Renoir At The Theatre written by Auguste Renoir and has been published by Paul Holberton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
"Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (The Theatre Box) is one of the iconic paintings of Impressionism. This book presents an array of new material and interpretation to explore the history and meanings of this celebrated work."--BOOK JACKET.
Claude Monet 1840 1926
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Author : Claude Monet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Claude Monet 1840 1926 written by Claude Monet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
The Magazine Antiques
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Magazine Antiques written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Antiques categories.