Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980 : goddess of the automobile age
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- ISBN: 9783836532273
- ISBN: 3836532271
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95 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm - Publisher: Köln : Taschen, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
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General Note: | Originally published in 1992. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cool, disconcerting beauty : this woman is free ... -- La belle Polonaise -- The art of the caesars -- Bedtime stories : the beautiful young woman and the ugly old dwarf -- Success : money and a title -- "She is such fun, and her pictures are so amusing" -- Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980: Life and work. |
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Subject: | Lempicka, Tamara de 1898-1980 Women painters France Biography Painters Poland Biography Painting, French 20th century Art deco Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | ND 237 .L46 N47 2016 | 30775305543184 | General Collection | Available | - |
Summary
De Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco.De Lempicka's style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive light and textures, they command our attention but typically avert their gaze with an aspect of haughty grandeur. They include both high-society patrons and progressive portraits of emancipated and lesbian women, such as Women Bathing and Portrait of Suzy Solidor. De Lempicka's notorious Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti, meanwhile, was commissioned for the cover of German magazine Die Dame and became an icon of speed, sophistication, and female independence.Through some of de Lempicka's finest, most compelling portraits, this introduction explores the artist's unique visual language and its privileged place not only in the annals of interwar art but also in the history of female artists and our collective consciousness of the Roaring Twenties.