Conversation Pieces. A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America book by Mario Praz

Mario Praz

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1990

0271001321 / 9780271001326

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Older book, a few marks on page block edge but overall good. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The "conversation piece", an intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions, is a genre which arose in the Low Countries, flourished in 18th-century England, and declined with the invention of photography. Professor Praz does not confine himself to tracing its history. He shows its close con- nection with the rise of the middle class, follows the different patterns and themes adopted by the artists, takes into account the various national developments; he explains why, for instance, the Italians mostly con- fined themselves to groups portrayed only down to the waist, while the Dutch and English invented the typical dramatic form of the conversation piece in which the back- ground is no less important than the sitters -hinting, as it does, at the importance of the people concerned, their possessions, and the sources of their prosperity. Certain peculiarities of the genre are here described for the first time, for example, portraits of families includin.…

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Titolo
Conversation Pieces. A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America book by Mario Praz
Autore
Mario Praz
Editore
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Anno di pubblicazione
1990
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0271001321
ISBN 13
9780271001326
Cataloghi dei venditori
All Things Art, Art Painting and Paintings

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