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Auteur(s) : Redford, Bruce (1953-....)
Titre(s) : John Singer Sargent and the art of allusion [Texte imprimé] / Bruce Redford
Publication : New Haven : Yale University Press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-218 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 29 cm
Comprend : Introduction: the practice of allusion ; The evanescence of empire ; The ceremony
of innocence ; The anxiety of affluence ; The anatomy of neurasthenia ; The code
of dandyism ; Afterword: the sense of an ending.
Note(s) : "The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the
glamor and anxiety of his age. In this innovative new study, Bruce Redford reveals
the web of visual quotations and references that informs Sargent's most ambitious
paintings. Throughout his career, Sargent was recognized and rewarded as a "Young
Master" whose bravura portraits inspired comparison with the likes of Velazquez, Van
Dyck, and Reynolds. At the same time, his paintings responded to the stylistic experiments
and cultural preoccupations of a world on the cusp of modernity. Sargent achieved
this complex synthesis through a pictorial language composed of witty acts of allusion.
John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion offers the first sustained inquiry into
the painter's practice of quotation--a practice that created a complex visual code.
Through comparative analysis of thematic groupings of portraits and analogous literary
texts, Redford shows how Sargent devised and transmitted that code. The result is
an enhanced awareness of Sargent's daring gamesmanship, his place in the history of
portraiture, and the dynamics of allusion in both art and literature"--Book jacket
Sujet(s) : Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)
Allusion -- Dans l'art
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300219302. - ISBN 030021930X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45218528d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45218528
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