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Portrait of a lady
Vanessa Lecomte
Sarah Burns
Olivier Meslay
其他書名
peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915
出版
Musée d'art américain, Terra Foundation for American Art
, 2008
主題
Art / General
Art / History / General
Art / American / General
Art / European
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies
ISBN
0932171559
9780932171559
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LA7qAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Gilded Age of the United States--a time of dazzling prosperity and decorative opulence at the close of the nineteenth century --inspired an equally extravagant artistic outpouring, particularly in portraiture of high-society women. Depicting women dressed in lush ball gowns, with regal bearing and beguiling expressions, these portraits were acquired in large numbers by the French government of the era. Paintings by celebrated American artists such as John White Alexander, Thomas Eakins, William T. Dannat, and John Singer Sargent and photographs taken by Gertrude Käsebier, George Henry Seeley, Edward Steichen, and Clarence H. White remain in French public collections today, and they are the subject of the Musée d'Art Américain Giverny exhibition
Portrait of a Lady
. This accompanying volume, with texts in both English and French, includes eighty full-color reproductions of these portraits and provides critical insight to the varied representations of femininity in art.
Portrait of a Lady
brings a new perspective to the Gilded Age: a period of fruitful exchange between French and American artists, between painting and photography, between tradition and avant-garde--all linked to the myth of "woman," a myth that is both eternal and constantly changing.