The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars. Combining a formidable classical technique with elements borrowed from Cubism, de Lempicka's art represented the ultimate in fashionable modernity while looking back for inspiration to such master portraitists as Ingres and Bronzino. This book celebrates the sleek and streamlined beauty of her best work in the 1920s and 30s. It traces the extraordinary life story of this talented and glamorous woman from turn of the century Poland and Tsarist Russia, through to her glorious years in Paris and the long years of decline and neglect in America, until her triumphant rediscovery in the 1970s when her portraits gained iconic status and world-wide popularity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Parkstone Press USA, The Limited
ISBN-10
1859959032
ISBN-13
9781859959039
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45410292
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lempicka
Number of Pages
207 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Individual Artists / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Author
Patrick Bade
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
50.7 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
9.7 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
759.38
Lc Classification Number
Nd237.L545b334 2006
Copyright Date
2006
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