John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789302616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ms. She was assistant curator at the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as the acting director and curator of the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York. John Esten created and designed many books including Man Ray/Bazaar Years, Manhattan Style, and Ha
Linger over the book's 18 color plates, which are a lasting, luscious pleasure; the scores of black-and-white drawings are similarly inspired. And, as the author somewhat frantically insists, there are works that possess an "uplifting and spiritual aspect." The wonder is that Sargent's sisters preserved these works--which the artist had kept private--after his death. The beauty and gentle eroticism of John Singer Sargent's paintings and drawings of nude males are the raison d'être of this otherwise somewhat slight book. Lawrence. Then there are a few nude wrestling matches, à la Eadweard
Images that speak for themselves Charles S. Houser It's hard to believe there was a time when the images in this book would have been considered pornographic. But if Singer's portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau ("Madame X") was considered scandalous because he painted her with a dropped shoulder strap (later repainted in its proper position), then you can understa. Joseph J. Hanssen said "Long Hidden from the Public". This is a beautiful book that I truly enjoyed. Not being a critic, but just a lover of fine art, I found this long hidden selection of John Singer Sargent's male nudes fascinating, and beautiful produced. There are drawings in black & white and many in color in this fine selection. This book was published on the . "The glory of the nude male revealed despite the times" according to Grady Harp. John Singer Sargent is admired as one of this country's premiere portrait artists and museums clamor for any new Sargent that comes on the auction block. His stately Edwardian ladies and gentlemen are elegance personified. Yet as we slowly discover the private lives and portfolios of some of our nation's brightes
Sargent's enduring subject was capturing the "human form divine" in portraits of the fashionable and famous and the absolute male.Over the last century, these little-known works have been dispersed to museum archives and private collections throughout the United States and Great Britain. Models were a significant aspect of the great painter's profession, whether they were commission-producing society "sitters" or professional models used as reference for his three Boston mural projects or works created for his private enjoyment--one young Italian model stayed in the artist's employ for nearly twenty-six years. Published on occasion of the major Sargent retrospective traveling to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. John Esten has unearthed the most extraordinary of these images, ranging from vibrant watercolors and oil paintings to charcoal studies, published here for the first time in a single volume.. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999, John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes brings to light a fascinating portion of Sargent's work long hidden from the public eye.Beginning in his adolescence, and throughout his distinguished career, John Singer Sargent, the celebrated