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Fingering Ingres
Susan Siegfried (Ed.)
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Description for Fingering Ingres
Paperback. A cross--section of current state of the art Ingres scholarship. The book includes the work of established authors and new researchers. The book contains a rich and unusual range of illustrations from the Ingres corpus. Editor(s): Siegfried, Susan (University of Leeds); Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 247 x 11. Weight in Grams: 482.
This book is a reassessment of the role of Ingres studies in the writing of nineteenth-century art history. The title Fingering Ingres refers to a remark of Jean Cassou, the French art critic, political militant and founding director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, in which he wrote of Ingres' 'caressing' his materials with the tip of his 'finger-nail'. The volume pays tribute to Ingres' historiographical enigma in bringing together a set of essays that scratch at and perhaps puncture the surface of his received framings. Ranging from the scrupulous study of Ingres' incapacity to allow himself a finished oeuvre, ... Read more
This book is a reassessment of the role of Ingres studies in the writing of nineteenth-century art history. The title Fingering Ingres refers to a remark of Jean Cassou, the French art critic, political militant and founding director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, in which he wrote of Ingres' 'caressing' his materials with the tip of his 'finger-nail'. The volume pays tribute to Ingres' historiographical enigma in bringing together a set of essays that scratch at and perhaps puncture the surface of his received framings. Ranging from the scrupulous study of Ingres' incapacity to allow himself a finished oeuvre, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Art History Special Issues
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631225263
SKU
V9780631225263
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About Susan Siegfried (Ed.)
Susan Siegfried is Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds. She is the author of The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France (1995) and has published widely on aspects of late eighteenth and nineteenth century art. She is currently writing a book on Ingres that explores the formal tensions and the psychic and social resonances ... Read more
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