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Century of Artist Letters
Jacqueline Albert Simon
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Description for Century of Artist Letters
Num Pages: 176 pages, 186 color and 36 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1932.
This personal and engaging book reproduces over 100 letters from the most-famous 19th- and 20th-century painters in Paris between 1855 and 1968. Among the artists are Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Mary Cassatt. With each letter is an exact transcription (all but two of the letters were originally written in French) and then an English translation. The text of the book explores each writer's relationships with the recipients and with other artists they mention, and a precise examination of each artists's place in the history of art. The artists write of their anxieties about ... Read more
This personal and engaging book reproduces over 100 letters from the most-famous 19th- and 20th-century painters in Paris between 1855 and 1968. Among the artists are Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Mary Cassatt. With each letter is an exact transcription (all but two of the letters were originally written in French) and then an English translation. The text of the book explores each writer's relationships with the recipients and with other artists they mention, and a precise examination of each artists's place in the history of art. The artists write of their anxieties about ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764319341
SKU
V9780764319341
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About Jacqueline Albert Simon
Jacqueline Albert Simon is US bureau chief and associate editor of the French review Politique Internationale. Lucy D. Rosenfeld is the author of 19 books on art, architecture, and cultural history.
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