Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520253183 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 195 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
These essays are excellent resources for those teaching and writing about nineteenth-century American art."—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. From the Inside Flap"Though not as well known as her contemporary Mary Cassatt, Beaux was in fact the most famous American woman artist of the nineteenth century
"Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter" according to Ms. S. H. Cecere. Loved this book! This illustrated biography tells about her high style portrait commissions, includes still life compostitions and landscapes. The author reveals Beaux's passion for her work and headstrong spirit which enabled her to achieve professional success as a female artist. Wonderful illustrations!
This handsomely illustrated book presents a range of the artist’s strongest work and offers a fresh understanding of her career by examining critical questions of gender, class, and the importance of place. It features substantive essays which examine Beaux’s participation in the international portrait market of the 1890s, explore the artist’s professional identity and changing fortunes through a close reading of key images, investigate Beaux’s sensitivity to the framing and display of her work. At the turn of the twentieth century, the celebrated American artist William Merritt Chase named Cecilia Beaux not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.” While Beauxunlike her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatthas not fared well in modernist-driven art history, her work has become the subject of renewed interest on the part of art historians, collec