De son voyage à Nantes au printemps 1790, Jacques Louis David rapporta une vaste composition allégorique, inspirée par l'esprit révolutionnaire qui avait très tôt pris racine dans la cité portuaire. ...Le présent essai en propose une analyse serrée soulignant que, lors de son séjour dans le premier port négrier de France, le peintre fut inévitablement confronté à la réalité du commerce des esclaves. En déchiffrant la polysémie iconographique de son dessin, Philippe Bordes y voit une métaphore de l'esclavage - ou plus exactement d'un esclavage Noir-Blanc, dans le double sens colonial et métropolitain - que David voulut y déployer. Il met en lien cette composition avec l'influence de son entourage parisien, qui comptait plusieurs membres de la Société des Amis des Noirs, et avec les vifs débats sur l'abolition de la traite négrière au sein de l'Assemblée nationale et en dehors. L'histoire renouvelée du séjour nantais de David se révèle alors comme le moment de l'entrée en Révolution de ce géant de la peinture en tant que citoyen et artiste.
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement headed by Romare Bearden, consisting of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist ...era. Bearden's association, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated with Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Bearden, and formed alliances with such African American artists as Faith Ringgold, Norman Lewis, Ed Clark, and Emma Amos; his work is exhibited in major collections and museums throughout the world. This book explores his art but also discusses the critical exclusion from the history of art of Native American and African American artists who are not figurative or ""narrative"" and creates a critical framework for reconsideration of such art.
A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.Y. Jackson's education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his ...time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists. Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from Montreal to Toronto in 1913, he became a key figure in a landscape movement that was determined to depict Canada in a bold new way, only to have a war dash the group's collective ambitions. Alone among his close associates, Jackson enlisted to fight with the 60th Infantry Battalion. Wounded at Sanctuary Wood in 1916, he returned to the field of combat as an official war artist - the first Canadian artist appointed, the only infantryman in the program - and militated for other Canadian appointments to what is now a storied moment of creation for such artists as F.H. Varley and Arthur Lismer. Jackson produced some of Canada's most memorable depictions of the world's first industrial-scale conflict, even as he reckoned with the anguish caused by the mysterious death of his close friend Tom Thomson. A life-changing event for soldiers, families, and nations alike, the First World War has been understood as a moment of stasis in the visual arts in Canada - the dead ground from which the Group of Seven emerged in the early 1920s. Douglas Hunter shows how Jackson's war was a moment of intense transformation and artistic development on the canvas as well as an experience that tempered a young man into a constructive elder statesman for Canadian art. On his return home he was not only instrumental in the formation of the Group of Seven in Toronto, but a key figure for the Beaver Hall Group in Montreal. Jackson's Wars is a story of brotherhoods of painters and soldiers, shot through with inspiration, ambition, trauma, and loss, on the home front as well as on the battlefield. Hunter widens and deepens A.Y. Jackson's world of friends, family, and colleagues to capture the life of a complex man and the crucial events and relationships behind the creation of Canada's best-known art collective.
Featuring exquisite color photographs, The Life and Art of Felrath Hines explores the life, work, and artistic significance of Felrath Hines, one of the most noteworthy art conservators of the 20th ...century.
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations ...and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona.
He travels between Leonora’s native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and André Breton to Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator, exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners or social milieus but as the artist she always was.
A textured portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and Leonora’s engagement with the books that she read.
I Can Only Paint Gammel, Irene
2020, 2022-03-30, Letnik:
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For Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. This book ...recovers a body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the effects of the Great War.
