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Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic TraditionPascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) was among a group of the most creative students of Jean Leon Gerome, the leading French academic painter of his day. A well-established naturalist painter and an artist acknowledged worldwide during the latter half of the nineteenth-century, Dagnan-Bouveret used contemporary themes and techniques to modernize the academic tradition in an attempt to meet the aesthetic changes initiated by the Impressionists. Displaying real diversity, he created pho... |
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Aganetha Dyck... |
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada: Homage to Artists (English, Spanish and Catalan Edition)... |
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Agathe Sorel Projections in Space and Time... |
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The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth CenturyThe complexity and variety of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art endow it with a particular dynamism. It was in the sixteenth century that drawing attained an independent status as an art in itself, distinct from painting; landscape increasingly became a separate genre; and artists consciously referred to the great masters of the past, showing the tremendous influence of Italian art in their own works. This volume documents the unique qualities of the art of drawing during the age of Bruegel. D... |
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The Age of Dürer and Holbein: German Drawings 1400 - 1550... |
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The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709... |
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The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and finest holdings of late 19th-century French art in the world. This lavishly illustrated book features over ninety paintings—nearly the entire collection—engagingly discussed in terms of the context in which so much memorable art was produced. It offers a fascinating overview of the Impressionist movement and its legacy, drawing upon the latest art-historical findings. The volume explores works by artists who sought official sanction by... |
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The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th CenturyIf you weren't lucky enough to see this terrific collection of work in Berlin, the exhibition catalog is a surprisingly satisfying substitute. Marking the birth of modernism in 1907 with the creation of Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, the show includes work through the 1990s. While work from such late dates is not usually included in the historical category of modernism, this show illustrates that modernism is a continuum based on innovation and reaction. The back matter is f... |
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