Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
2022Best.-Nr. 213964New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2022. Hardcover. As new. Square quarto. Hardcover. Bound in maroon cloth with illustrated jacket. 308 pages : illustrations some color portraits facsimiles ; 28 cm. Text in American English with translations from the French. "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman will be the first exhibition devoted to works on paper by the celebrated French artist who navigated vast artistic and political divides throughout his life -- from his birth in Paris in 1748 to his death in exile in Brussels in 1825. His iconic works captured the aspirations and suffering of a nation while addressing timeless themes that continue to resonate today. Through the lens of his preparatory studies the exhibition looks beyond his public successes to chart the moments of inspiration and the progress of ideas. Visitors will follow the artist's process as he gave form to the neoclassical style and created major canvases that shaped the public's perceptions of historical events in the years before during and after the French Revolution. Organized chronologically the exhibition will feature more than eighty drawings and oil sketches -- including rarely loaned or newly discovered works -- drawn from the collections of The Met and dozens of institutional and private lenders."-- "The paintings of Jacques Louis David 1748-1825 are among the most iconic in the history of Western art but comparatively little is known about his nearly two thousand drawings that formed the basis of beloved masterpieces such as The Oath of the Horatii and The Death of Socrates. Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman accompanies the first major exhibition to focus on the artist's often yearlong process of trial and experimentation from initial idea to finished canvas. Including several recently discovered drawings published here for the first time this volume provides a new perspective on the celebrated master. Essays by international experts explore what David's preparatory works on paper reveal about his creative process and how they bear witness to the tumultuous years before during and after the French Revolution. As both a participant and an observer David helped establish the new French society while documenting the drama violence and triumphs of modern history in the making."--. Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover books
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