The Janus Gate: An Encounter With John Singer Sargent - Couverture rigide

Rees, Douglas

 
9780823004065: The Janus Gate: An Encounter With John Singer Sargent
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0823004066 ISBN 13 : 9780823004065
Editeur : Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

Everyone who looks at "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit", the grand-scale painting by John Singer Sargent that hangs in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, is drawn into its mysteries. Who are these four girls, dressed in prim pinafores? Why is the composition so far off balance? Why are two of the girls cloaked so completely in shadows that their "portraits" are little more than ghostly ciphers? Author Douglas Rees explores the complexities of this masterpiece with a psychological thriller that lets Sargent himself tell the story behind the canvas. When one of the girls scratches the words "Help us" on a scrap of drawing paper, Sargent realizes that he alone has the power to save them. Will the great portraitist paint the girls as they appear - or will he show the reality of their dark, mysterious lives? It is a part of the "Art Explorers" series.

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Rees is the author of Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin, which was a selection of the Junior Library Guild. The New York Times Book Review called his picture book Grandy Thaxter's Helper "easily the most winning book about outsmarting death (or almost anything else) in many a season."

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Éditeur
Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823004066
ISBN 13 
9780823004065
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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