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Ingres: Painting Reimagined

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Description for Ingres: Painting Reimagined Hardback. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. This book offers an account on various aspects of Ingres' achievement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations + 40 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 201 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1934.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. Even today, the odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics, and artists. 

 

In this handsomely illustrated and elegantly written book, Susan L. Siegfried argues that the strangeness associated with Ingres’s paintings needs to be located in the complex and richly invested nature of the work itself, as well as in the artist’s very powerful—if often perverse—sense of artistic project.  She shows that his major re-thinking of pictorial narrative – in his classical literary, historical, and religious subjects – was as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300148831
SKU
V9780300148831
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About Susan L. Siegfried
Susan L. Siegfried is Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly:  Modern Life in Napoleonic France, co-author of Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David , and co-editor of Fingering Ingres.

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