John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion
by Sargent, John Singer; Redford, Bruce (Text by)
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Cloth, ix, 218 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 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.. 1st. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible.
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- John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion
- Author
- Sargent, John Singer; Redford, Bruce (Text by)
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- NEW
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- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 030021930X
- ISBN 13
- 9780300219302
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2016
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
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- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 4. Late 19th Century; Genre & Subject / Portraiture;
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