Bibliograph

The art of the pastel, Thea Burns, Philippe Saunier

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The art of the pastel, Thea Burns, Philippe Saunier

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The art of the pastel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907061222

Responsibility statement

Thea Burns, Philippe Saunier

Summary

"An illustrated, comprehensive survey of the fine art of pastel"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Origins of the golden age: the invention of an art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- A fashion for independent chalk drawing in Italy and France -- The early market for painting in pastel and its place in the Académie Royale -- Rosalba Carriera and 'The game of appearances' -- Maurice Quentin de la Tour and the triumph of pastel painting -- The golden age of pastel painting: France at midcentury -- The Turkish painter: Jean-Etienne Liotard of Geneva -- Women pastel painters of late eighteenth-century France -- British pastel artists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- John Russell, 'Prince of pastelists' -- Pastel in the British periphery: Ireland, Scotland, and America -- An audacious era: the nineteenth century -- A lengthy exile -- The past rediscovered -- The quest for legitimacy -- Outside the walls: pastel landscapes -- The revelation of Jean-François Millet -- The impressionist pastel -- Manet and the Parisian women of his time -- Degas and Cassatt: advocates of truth -- The nuances of Whistler -- The last word in elegance -- International renewal -- The exaltation of color -- The symbolist pastel -- Odilon Redon and the reinvention of pastel

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