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Shakespeare Hogarth and Garrick: Plays Painting and Performance

2023ref. 212208London: Paul Holberton Publishing 2023. Hardcover. VG. As new besides a small stamp inside stating withdrawn from a research library. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustrated jacket. v 246 pages : illustrations chiefly color portraits ; 30 cm. "One day in London in 1770 the polymath Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742-1799 wrote: 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare Hogarth and Garrick! There is something similar in the genius of all three.' Two-and-a-half centuries on this book takes up the challenge. William Hogarth 1697-1764 and David Garrick 1717-1779 consciously associated themselves with Shakespeare throughout their careers. The three of them together embody the age-old relationship between plays painting and performance that shaped in particular the formulation of history painting by the Académie royale in Paris in the seventeenth century. History painting was identified as the highest form of art: a picture interpreting just a few lines of a revered text. In Britain Hogarth's David Garrick as Richard III transformed those ideas because although it looked like a history painting it was also a portrait of an actor in performance. With it Hogarth established the genre of theatrical portraiture and resolved a perpetual complaint about art in Britain: that there was no patronage of history painting and that all the British were interested in was portraits. This book offers a fresh examination of theatrical portraits -- best understood as a distinctly British kind of history painting -- through close analysis of the pictures and the actual texts used in performance recovering a sense of their contemporary reception and the context within which they were made. It also highlights the significance of Shakespeare Hogarth and Garrick within the European Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism."--from the inside front flap. Paul Holberton Publishing hardcover books

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Shannon, Peggy; Simon, ScottABAA

Churches of Paris

2022ref. 209878Woodbridge Suffolk: ACC Art Books 2022. Hardcover. As new. Inscribed by Shannon. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated boards with gilt stamped titles. 335 pages : illustrations color ; 30 cm. "Parisian churches are revered around the globe. Their stunning stained-glass windows and intricate Gothic architecture are accomplishments of unrivalled elegance. Churches of Paris gathers 50 of the finest in the City of Light spanning the 12th to the 20th centuries. Each entry is embellished with beautiful colour photography and behind-the-scenes historical commentary. Offering insight into the buildings' construction and genesis this book narrates how each church was shaped by war revolution and time. With information on travel opening hours restoration and preservation this is an invaluable guide for Francophiles and curious armchair travellers alike. Featured churches: Basilique du Sacre-Coeur-de-Montmartre Basilique Saint-Clotilde Cathedrale de Saint-Denis Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris Chapelle de l'Epiphanie et Salle des Martyrs Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Medaille-Miraculeuse Chapelle Saint-Vincent de Paul La Madeleine Notre-Dame-de-Grace-de-Passy Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Saint-Augustin Sainte-Chapelle Sainte-Elisabeth-de-Hongrie Sainte-Marguerite Sainte-Marie-des-Batignolles Saint-Etienne-du-Mont Sainte-Trinite Saint-Eugene Sainte-Cecile Saint-Eustache Saint-Francois-Xavier Saint-Germain-des-Pres Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Saint-Louis-en-l'ile Saint-Merry Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs Saint-Paul - Saint-Louis Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre Saint-Roch Saint-Severin Saint-Sulpice Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin Saint-Vincent-de-Paul The American Cathedral of Paris"--Publisher's description. ACC Art Books hardcover books

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Shannon, Peggy; Simon, ScottABAA

Churches of Paris

2022ref. 209877Woodbridge Suffolk: ACC Art Books 2022. Hardcover. New. In shrinkwrap. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated boards with gilt stamped titles. 335 pages : illustrations color ; 30 cm. "Parisian churches are revered around the globe. Their stunning stained-glass windows and intricate Gothic architecture are accomplishments of unrivalled elegance. Churches of Paris gathers 50 of the finest in the City of Light spanning the 12th to the 20th centuries. Each entry is embellished with beautiful colour photography and behind-the-scenes historical commentary. Offering insight into the buildings' construction and genesis this book narrates how each church was shaped by war revolution and time. With information on travel opening hours restoration and preservation this is an invaluable guide for Francophiles and curious armchair travellers alike. Featured churches: Basilique du Sacre-Coeur-de-Montmartre Basilique Saint-Clotilde Cathedrale de Saint-Denis Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris Chapelle de l'Epiphanie et Salle des Martyrs Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Medaille-Miraculeuse Chapelle Saint-Vincent de Paul La Madeleine Notre-Dame-de-Grace-de-Passy Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Saint-Augustin Sainte-Chapelle Sainte-Elisabeth-de-Hongrie Sainte-Marguerite Sainte-Marie-des-Batignolles Saint-Etienne-du-Mont Sainte-Trinite Saint-Eugene Sainte-Cecile Saint-Eustache Saint-Francois-Xavier Saint-Germain-des-Pres Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Saint-Louis-en-l'ile Saint-Merry Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs Saint-Paul - Saint-Louis Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre Saint-Roch Saint-Severin Saint-Sulpice Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin Saint-Vincent-de-Paul The American Cathedral of Paris"--Publisher's description. ACC Art Books hardcover books

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Bills, Mark (and) Juliet Kinchin (and) Simon OldingABAA

Edwin Longsden Long RA

1998ref. 204109London: Cygnus Arts 1998. Hardcover. VG/VG. A black casebound book with gilt lettering down the spine. There is a glossy dust jacket wtih yellow text down a red spine. Pages: 16 1-190. Illustrated with black-and-white and color images. "This is the first substantial monograph of the eminent Victorian painter Edwin Longsden Long RA 1820-1891. The main body of the text covers Long's life and works from his beginnings as an unknown portrait painter in Bath to his final years as a successful Royal Academician in London. It discusses the consistent themes that appear in his work - religion religious ritual archaeology and female beauty. With the first comprehensive catalogue of Long's work and three essays examining his life his studio houses and his patrons this book is the definitive study of this quintessentially Victorian artist. In his London heyday Long's work adorned the central position at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as well as being a permanent feature of the Bond Street galleries in London. Edwin Longsden Long RA is the first work to catalogue Long's prolific output and to give an account of his life and of the context within which he worked. Essays by Simon Olding and Juliet Kinchin focus respectively on The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum's prominent collection of Long's work and on his London studio houses." Contents are as follows: Foreword / Philip Dowson -- Preface / Mark Bills -- The Life and Works of Edwin Longsden Long RA 1829-1891 / Mark Bills -- "Mr. Long has the finest studio in London ." / Juliet Kinchin -- Edwin Long and Merton Russell-Cotes / Simon Olding -- Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Edwin Longsden Long RA / Mark Bills. The Early Years 1829-1856. The Influence of Spain 1857-1873. Egypt Babylon and Associateship to the Royal Academy 1874-1880. Royal Academician and the Commercial Successes of Bond Street 1881-1887. The Final Years 1888-1891. Cygnus Arts hardcover books

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Jones, Kimberly and Simon Kelly, Sarah Kennel and Helga AurischABAA

In The Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers From Corot to Monet

2008ref. 203951Washington DC /Houston: National Gallery of Art / Museum of Fine Arts 2008. Hardbound. VG/VG as new. Grey cloth boards with gray lettering on spine color illustrated dust jacket ix 207 pp. profusely illustrated with 179 color and countless bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery in Washington DC. The Forest of Fontainebleau located about 50 miles southeast of Paris held a singular place in 19th-century art. Variously called "savage" "wild" "romantic" and "beautiful" by visitors Fontainebleau's topography was viewed in many ways that reflected the sensibilities of the time. This is the first English-language publication to examine the significance of the region to the plein-air tradition in France. The book highlights four pivotal figures in the evolution of landscape painting: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The;odore Rousseau Jean-François Millet and Claude Monet. It integrates into this history the photographers who worked at Fontainebleau including Eugène Cuvelier and Gustave Le Gray and explores the role the forest played in the development of early photography. It also considers the reception of paintings of Fontainebleau at the Salons and the influence of Fontainebleau on the advent of Impressionism. Contents as follows: Lenders to the Exhibition -- Map of Fontainebleau -- Landscapes Legends Souvenirs Fantasies: The Forest of Fontainebleau in the Nineteenth Century / Kimberly Jones -- Plates -- Discovery -- Topography -- Trees -- Rocks -- Village Life -- Nature and Observation -- Mystery of the Forest: Paintings of Fontainebleau at the Salon / Simon Kelly -- Infinite Museum: Photography in the Forest of Fontainebleau / Sarah Kennel -- Impressionists at Fontainebleau / Helga Aurisch. National Gallery of Art / Museum of Fine Arts hardcover books

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Simon, TarynABAA

The Color of a Flea's Eye: The Picture Collection

2020ref. 205262Paris: Editions 'Cahiers d'art' 2020. Hardcover. VG. Dark green leatherbound book with yellow text on the spine. The end pages are a heavy green fabric. Profusely illustrated with color tipped-in plates and many foldout displays. There are also black-and-white printed images. Pages focused on text are a pretty light green. "Taryn Simon's 'The Color of a Flea's Eye' presents a history of the New York Public Library's Picture Collection -- a legendary trove of more than one million prints photographs postcards posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915 the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers historians artists filmmakers fashion designers and advertising agencies. In her work The Picture Collection 2012-20 Simon born 1975 highlighted the impulse to organize visual information and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon's photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder such as Chiaroscuro Handshaking Haircombing Express Highways Financial Panics Israel and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions only slices of the individual images are visible each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue at the same time that history -- its classifications its contents -- seems the stuff of projection. Simon spent years sifting through letters memos and records that reveal an untold story between the library and artists media government and a broader public. These documents also divulge the removal and transfer of photographs from the democratically circulating picture-collection folders to the photography collection in the late 1980s when their marketplace value became apparent. Simon's selection of photographs from these transfers highlights gender immigration race and economy in America alongside the technical development of photography." Editions 'Cahiers d'art' hardcover books

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