Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers

Kenneth E. Silver

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to re-imagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits—Fauve, Cubist, Dada, Surrealist, and Expressionist—unlike any seen before.

This remarkable book focuses on a rich variety of these portraits, presenting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Duchamp, Brancusi, Lipchitz, Gris, Rivera, Modigliani, Dubuffet, Laurencin, and Soutine. A major essay explores the fascinating network of personal and aesthetic relationships that existed at the time, as artists depicted themselves and their friends, collectors, critics, spouses, and romantic partners. There is also a formal and iconographic discussion of each featured work, as well as relevant biographical, cultural, and historical information.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: November 25, 2008

ISBN: 0300145438

ISBN 13: 9780300145434

Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers

Kenneth E. Silver

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to re-imagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits—Fauve, Cubist, Dada, Surrealist, and Expressionist—unlike any seen before.

This remarkable book focuses on a rich variety of these portraits, presenting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Duchamp, Brancusi, Lipchitz, Gris, Rivera, Modigliani, Dubuffet, Laurencin, and Soutine. A major essay explores the fascinating network of personal and aesthetic relationships that existed at the time, as artists depicted themselves and their friends, collectors, critics, spouses, and romantic partners. There is also a formal and iconographic discussion of each featured work, as well as relevant biographical, cultural, and historical information.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: November 25, 2008

ISBN: 0300145438

ISBN 13: 9780300145434

More books from Kenneth E. Silver

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Lartigue's Riviera

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Modigliani and His Models

The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York, 1930–1955

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Chaim Soutine

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905-1945

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Making Paradise: Art, Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera

Face Value (American Portraits)

JFK and Art

David Hockney

Fernand Léger

Rate this book!

Write a review?