Publicado por Yale University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1857093461 ISBN 13: 9781857093469
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. National Gallery, London, published inn conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Gallery from 28 June to 28 August 2006; square 4to, 215 x 265mm; 72 full page plates in colour and a number of other coloured figures in the text; thick card boards, the front cover showing detail from Alexandre Abel de Pujol's "Self Portrait 1806"; some very light creasing towards the foot of the front cover but otherise near fine in condition. . . . . . The exhibition, which this catalogue supports, is the first major one to focus on Romantic and powerful notions of the artistic self and creativity, on the artist as an outsider but also an important member of society illuminating important truths and playing out the myth of the inspired rebel battling against a hostile and philistine society.
Publicado por Yale University Press, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 1857093461 ISBN 13: 9781857093469
Librería: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very good. Paperback. 10 1/2" X 8 1/2". 192pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers and edges. A few spots of toning to top edge of text block. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The mythical artist, heroic and rebellious, isolated and suffering, is the creation of late-18th-century Romanticism. Throughout the 19th century this powerful myth influenced the way people thought and wrote about artists and, more importantly, the way artists thought about -- and depicted -- themselves. Covering the period from the French Revolution to World War I, from Romanticism to the avant-garde, this catalog considers how artists responded to this myth. The focus is on key artists and groups who self-consciously forged distinctive identities: the Nazarenes, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Nabis, and Schiele. The book includes an introduction, a chronology, and an overview of the myth of the artist in literature, as well as a beautifully illustrated catalog section arranged according to such themes as Bohemia; Dandy and Flâneur; Priest, Seer, Martyr, Christ; and Creativity and Sexuality.(Publisher).