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Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting
Bridget Alsdorf
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Description for Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting
Hardback. Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, this book argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 color illus. 122 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 260 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1234.
Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Through close readings of some of the most ambitious paintings of the realist and impressionist generation, Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters understood the shifting boundaries of their social world, and reveals the fragile masculine bonds that made up the avant-garde. A dedicated realist who veered between extremes of sociability and hermetic isolation, Fantin-Latour painted group dynamics over ... Read more
Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Through close readings of some of the most ambitious paintings of the realist and impressionist generation, Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters understood the shifting boundaries of their social world, and reveals the fragile masculine bonds that made up the avant-garde. A dedicated realist who veered between extremes of sociability and hermetic isolation, Fantin-Latour painted group dynamics over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691153674
SKU
V9780691153674
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About Bridget Alsdorf
Bridget Alsdorf is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
Reviews for Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting
"[S]cholarly, exact, and closely argued."
Julian Barnes, London Review of Books "[Fellow Men] is a most meticulous and wide-ranging study."
Choice "Bridget Alsdorf has written a fluent, carefully considered book... Staying admirably close to the paintings and the preparatory drawings for each, Alsdorf exposes many of the contradictions that linger around Fantin-Latour's oeuvre, often signaling these in crisply aphoristic terms."
Anne Leonard, Nineteenth-Century ... Read more
Julian Barnes, London Review of Books "[Fellow Men] is a most meticulous and wide-ranging study."
Choice "Bridget Alsdorf has written a fluent, carefully considered book... Staying admirably close to the paintings and the preparatory drawings for each, Alsdorf exposes many of the contradictions that linger around Fantin-Latour's oeuvre, often signaling these in crisply aphoristic terms."
Anne Leonard, Nineteenth-Century ... Read more