Renoir

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RENOIR
A RETROSPECTIVE
edited by Nicholas Wadley
With 124 full-color and !16 black-and-white illustrations
By the end of his long working life in 1919, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose works were ridiculed when they were first exhibited, was one of the most famous artists of his generation. A scholarly monograph had already been published in German and French and museums were lining up to pay rapidly rising prices for his paintings. His reputation as the most popular of the Impressionist painters was already firmly established.
Like its predecessors, Monet: A Retrospective and Van Gogh: A Retrospective, this new volume tells the story of the artist and his work through the cumulative witness of family and friends, of artists, critics, historians and patrons, as well as through Renoir's own letters, writings, and recorded comments. Together with 124 superb color plates and 116 black-and-white illustrations, they offer a picture of Renoir's life, of his art and of very varied... Tovább

Fülszöveg

RENOIR
A RETROSPECTIVE
edited by Nicholas Wadley
With 124 full-color and !16 black-and-white illustrations
By the end of his long working life in 1919, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose works were ridiculed when they were first exhibited, was one of the most famous artists of his generation. A scholarly monograph had already been published in German and French and museums were lining up to pay rapidly rising prices for his paintings. His reputation as the most popular of the Impressionist painters was already firmly established.
Like its predecessors, Monet: A Retrospective and Van Gogh: A Retrospective, this new volume tells the story of the artist and his work through the cumulative witness of family and friends, of artists, critics, historians and patrons, as well as through Renoir's own letters, writings, and recorded comments. Together with 124 superb color plates and 116 black-and-white illustrations, they offer a picture of Renoir's life, of his art and of very varied attitudes towards him from past and present, that is fresh, often challenging and vividly complete.
As well as major sources like Renoir's friends Georges Riviere and Albert André, the teenage Julie Manet, the dealer Ambroise Vollard and the artist's son Jean, the writers include Zola, Valéry, Huysmans and Mirbeau; Walter Pach, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Herbert Read, Clement Greenberg, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Gowing, and David Sylvester The artists quoted include Manet, Morisot, Cassatt, Pissarro, Van Gogh, Denis, Matisse, Lhote, De Chirico, Sickert, Patrick Heron, Keith Vaughan, Henry Moore, Bridget Riley, and Howard Hodgkin.
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Both pictures and texts have been masterfully compiled and introduced by the art historian Nicholas Wadley, who was until recently Head of the History of Art Department of Chelsea School of Art in London. He has published several books on French nineteenth-century painting, including Noa Noa, Gauguin's Tahiti (1985).
Renoir: A Retrospective is not another conventional eulogy of praise to a master. In presenting opinions for and against Renoir from the 1860s to the 1980s, from the famous and the not so famous— many of them translated here for the first time—it offers new insights into Renoir's sensuous celebration of women, nature, and modern life at large. Vissza