Sargent and Italy - Couverture rigide

Dini, Jane; Fort, Ilene Susan; Herdrich, Stephanie L.; Lewis, Richard Warrington Baldwin; Ormond, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691113289 ISBN 13 : 9780691113289

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This extravagantly illustrated catalogue - published in association with a major exhibition - evokes the romantic fascination with Italy that glimmers in the work of John Singer Sargent. Sargent, heralded on both sides of the Atlantic, was one of the most creative American artists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Florence to American parents living abroad, he retained a deep and lifelong connection to the country famed for its ability to get "ineradicably in one's blood." Sargent vacationed frequently in Italy, and most of the works he created there were painted not for commission but out of his artistic passion for Italy's people, land, and culture. Often hauntingly powerful, they range from dramatically painted genre scenes of Italian peasants and saturated landscapes that celebrate the beauty of the Italian countryside to portraits of other Anglo-American expatriates and tourists, including Henry James and Edith Wharton.The majority of works are of Italian sites, including well-known tourist spots but also the quieter, more isolated locales that Sargent sought out. His subjects include magnificent Italian gardens with their ancient and Baroque statuary, Rome's Neoclassical and Renaissance buildings, urban street scenes, the Italian Alps, and, of course, Venetian canals. Sargent found Venice particularly alluring, and the city well suited the watercolor medium in which he worked most often in Italy. His use of vivid colors, brushwork that varied from soft and fluid to bold and dashing, and an overwhelming sense of light and air characterize his Italian scenes - and rank Sargent as one of the finest watercolorists of all time.His later Italian works, some in watercolor and others in oil, reveal an artist who relished his materials and made art purely for art's sake. Both beautiful and informative, this lavish volume includes eighty-five color and fifty black-and-white images. It adds a new dimension to our appreciation of Sargent's art and will delight anyone who loves Italy, as Sargent so passionately did.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bruce Robertson is Chief Curator of the Center for American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is author of books on Winslow Homer and Marsden Hartley. Jane Dini is the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at California State University, Los Angeles. Ilene Susan Fort is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Stephanie L. Herdrich is Research Associate of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. R.W.B. Lewis Retired Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University and Master of the Residential College of Calhoun. He is author of the Pulitzer prize-winning "Edith Wharton: A Biography" and "The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings". Richard Ormond is Sargent's grand nephew and current project director of the John S. Sargent catalogue raisonne, as well as one-time director of the National Maritime Museum and ex-Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He is author of numerous books on Sargent including "John Singer Sargent" (Princeton).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691113289
• ISBN 13: 9780691113289
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Robertson Bruce
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible