by Ellen G. Miles (1994)
During the years from 1796 to 1810, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) made some of the most memorable images in the history of American portraiture. Because of his unusually precise style and the multitude of sitters he portrayed, his distinctive profile portraits have come to epitomize Federal America. Among his subjects were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Mother Seton, John Adams, and Paul Revere. Eventually Saint-Memin returned to France, leaving behind no successful imitators of his art. Among the most individualistic images from the Federal period, his profile portraits are a unique legacy to this nation. This book documents all of the artist's portraits, as well as his landscapes, plans, and other engravings; and the portrait entries include short biographies of the subjects. The catalogue is preceded by an illustrated history of the neoclassical profile portrait in America, and a biography of the artist.
Peter Held
Presents a series of essays about the life and accomplishments of the Japanese American artitst, describing her work as a potter, her incorporation of Eastern and Western techniques, and her transition into abstract sculpture and installation art.
Anne Dion-Tenenbaum
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée du 9 juin au 5 septembre 2011 au Louvre à Paris. 70 oeuvres sur papier d'une cinquantaine d'artistes actifs entre les XVe et XXIe siècles, ont été sélectionnées dans les fonds des départements des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, du musée d'Orsay, du Musée national d'Art moderne (Pompidou) et dans ceux de diverses collections françaises. En confrontant les générations, il s'agit de démontrer que le papier est un acteur à part entière du dessin. L'exposition dont le présent catalogue rend compte s'organise en cinq sections, jouant par principe sur les rapprochements entre anciens et modernes et sur la diversité des partis techniques et esthétiques.
Enrica Crispino
Traces the brief and troubled life of van Gogh: his birth in a Dutch village, his travels in Belgium and England, his arrival in Impressionist Paris and his discovery of the delights of the south of France, where he died at 37. Shows how, in spite of suffering mental crises and inner turmoil, van Gogh always continued to search for ways of painting that expressed the true essence of his subjects.
Jacob Bean
This volume describes and reproduces 379 drawings by Italian artists of the seventeenth century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The most brilliant draughtsmen of this period--Annibale Carracci, G. B. Castiglione, Pietro da Cortona, Guercino, Carlo Maratti, and Salvator Rosa--are well represented in the Museum's collection, and the book offers a survey of Italian baroque draughtsmanship. It includes innovative work by Carracci, as well as drawings by such late baroque masters as Sebastiano Ricci and Francesco Solimena. Four hundred five illustrations are contained in this inventory. Entries for the drawings provide essential bibliographical references, provenance, and a discussion of the purpose of the drawing when known. -- Inside jacket flap.