Renoir - Rilegato

Distel, Anne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0789210576 ISBN 13: 9780789210579

Casa editrice: Abbeville Pr, 2010

Riassunto

"In this elegant readable monograph, noted art historian Anne Distel offers an illuminating new account of the life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). She deftly narrates Renoir's rise from apprentice porcelain painter to celebrated artist, quoting judiciously from the painter's own vivid letters from reviews by contemporary critics. In addition, she offers keen analyses of Renoir's style at each stage of his sixty-year career. And Distel does not consider that career in isolation, but uses the latestdiscoveries in the documentary evidence - some of them her own - to re-create the artistic and social milieus in which Renoir worked. She traces his relationships with other artists, both Manet and his fellow Impressionists and older contemporaries like Corot, Diaz, Courbet and Daubigny, as well as the younger Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso; with writers like Zola, Mallarme, and Mirbeau; with his dealers, like Paul Durand-Ruel, Ambroise Vollard and the Bernheim brothers; and not least, with the patrons who were so important to his career, like the Charpentiers, the Berards, Charles Ephrussi, Maurice Gangnat and Dr. Barnes." "Distel's insightful text is illustrated throughout with some three hundred splendid color reproductions of the artist's finest and most representative works plus important archival photographs. This is the definitive monograph on one of the world's best-loved artists."--BOOK JACKET.

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Recensione:

A lavishly illustrated and well-researched monograph Refreshingly free of the myth-making tone that characterizes much monographic writing about Renoir. Distel’s book presents a careful, unbiased reconstruction of the complexity and nuance of the artist’s unfolding life and career. Summing up: Recommended.
—Choice

This gorgeous monograph might just be the definitive volume on the beloved artist.
—FRANCE magazine

L'autore:

Anne Distel, a specialist in Impressionist painting, is emeritus curator-at-large of the French patrimony. During her distinguished career in the Musées de France, she organized important exhibitions devoted to Renoir, Seurat, and Caillebotte, among others.

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• Editore: Abbeville Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0789210576
• ISBN 13: 9780789210579
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400