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The art of the pastel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780789212405 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0789212404 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
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384 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Pastel drawing History |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirtland Community College Library | NC 880 .B87 2015 | 30775305510423 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Art of the Pastel
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The Art of the Pastel
Dorothea Burns is an independent art researcher and former chief conservator of works on paper at the Weissman Preservation Center of Harvard University. She is an expert on pastel art and metalpoint drawing. Philippe Saunier , now chief curator at the Direction Générale du Patrimoine in the French Ministry of Culture, was formerly a curator at the Musée d'Orsay, where he oversaw the collection of pastels.
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