Internationally renowned critic Penny Boumelha offers close, thought-provoking readings of Charlotte Bronte's The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. Drawing on the most recent work in feminist and Marxist theory and criticism, the author pays scrupulous attention to the specific historical and textual possibilities of reading and writing in the mid-nineteenth century.
In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris underwent Baron Haussman's spectacular transformation.
A history of the birth of Modernist culture assesses the influences of defining movements while tracing the pivotal contributions of such key artists as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Gertrude Stein.
Noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe explores the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse, spanning from the eve of World War I to the 1936 unveiling of Dalí's Lobster Telephone. During these transformative years, the Surrealists innovatively examined the interior life and redefined art. Roe recounts this artistic revolution set against the backdrop of the vibrant salons and cafés of Montparnasse. She combines incisive art criticism with engaging biography, beginning with Duchamp and tracing the rise of the Dada movement, the birth of Surrealist photography with Man Ray, and the creation of significant works by Ernst, Cocteau, and others, culminating with Dalí's arrival. These artists juxtaposed previously unseen objects, prompting viewers to marvel at the ordinary and the subconscious. Roe immerses us in the lives of Montparnasse's artists, placing us alongside Gertrude Stein at The Rite of Spring's opening, Duchamp installing his famous urinal, and Cocteau at a theatrical event with Picasso and Coco Chanel. We also witness Breton's session with Freud and Man Ray's romance with Kiki de Montparnasse, capturing the essence of a groundbreaking artistic era.
A revealing, animated biography of a sexual and intellectual rebel and a great painter In 1942, at the height of his fame, Augustus John predicted that 'fifty years from now I shall be known as the brother of Gwen John'. Gwen John (1876-1939) is indeed now recognised as a great artistic innovator, yet for years her life remained shrouded in the myth of the solitary recluse. Born in Pembrokeshire, Gwen followed her brother to the Slade. Her future was bound up with Augustus, his women and his coteries, yet she was also daring and highly original, living determinedly in her own way. Defiant yet shy, she painted and modelled amid the Bohemian circles of early twentieth-century Paris and embarked on a long, intense love affair with France's most legendary artistic figure, the sculptor Rodin. A friend of Symbolist poets and post-Impressionist painters, later she turned increasingly to religion, achieving a deep serenity which masked her inner turbulence and creating her haunting paintings, described as delicate and austere, restrained and still. Based on her lively and passionate unpublished letters and lavishly illustrated, this vivid new biography challenges our prejudices about the ways we evaluate women artists and finally uncovers the life of this ardent and complicated personality, one of the finest artists of her day.
Kniha přibližuje životní příběhy klíčových postav impresionismu, zároveň barvitě líčí umělecké prostředí Paříže v letech 1860-86. Osudy, přátelství, lásky předních francouzských impresionistů, pestrý obraz života pařížské umělecké bohémy. Autorka výstižně objasňuje jejich úsilí o nový malířský výraz, snahu dosáhnout společenského uznání, sleduje úspěchy i prohry hlavních představitelů impresionismu. Zabývá se náměty jejich děl i tím, jak na impresionistické obrazy reagovala tehdejší veřejnost a umělecký svět. Kniha popisuje dvacet šest let vývoje impresionistického hnutí od jeho počátků kolem roku 1860 až po zlomový rok 1886, kdy obchodník s uměním Paul Durand-Ruel představil tvorbu impresionistů v New Yorku.
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