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PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-108857207021

ISBN-139788857207025

eBay Product ID (ePID)102808259

Product Key Features

Book TitleJean-Leon Gerome

Number of Pages374 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCriticism & Theory, Individual Artists / Monographs, European

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorLaurence Des Cars, Dominique De Font-Relaux, Edouard Papet

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight82.2 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width9.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal759.4

SynopsisAn overview of Grme's oeuvre from his sources of inspiration to his influences on others. The public perception of Jean-Lon Grme has changed greatly over the past decades. Long stigmatized as an emblem of sterile academicism, he is now considered one of the nineteenth century's great image makers. This catalog highlights and analyzes his bountiful expression of a visual grammar that takes illusionist obsession to the limits of the bizarre and establishes a resonance with all visual arts, including prints, photography, and cinema. In particular, it will make it possible to propose new approaches to such diverse issues as Grme's place in the French painting of his time, his theatrical conception of historical themes, his complex exoticism, his use of polychrome in sculpture, his role as a teacher, his relationship with historical models, how the figure of this artist galvanized the anti-academy clash at the end of the nineteenth century, and lastly, the singular American destiny of his works. The catalog sets out to explore, beyond the immediate seductive qualities and accessibility of Grme's oeuvre, its double identity, both erudite and popular, which now renders it so precious to art historians and to the general public., An overview of G r me's oeuvre from his sources of inspiration to his influences on others. The public perception of Jean-L on G r me has changed greatly over the past decades. Long stigmatized as an emblem of sterile academicism, he is now considered one of the nineteenth century's great image makers. This catalog highlights and analyzes his bountiful expression of a visual grammar that takes illusionist obsession to the limits of the bizarre and establishes a resonance with all visual arts, including prints, photography, and cinema. In particular, it will make it possible to propose new approaches to such diverse issues as G r me's place in the French painting of his time, his theatrical conception of historical themes, his complex exoticism, his use of polychrome in sculpture, his role as a teacher, his relationship with historical models, how the figure of this artist galvanized the anti-academy clash at the end of the nineteenth century, and lastly, the singular American destiny of his works. The catalog sets out to explore, beyond the immediate seductive qualities and accessibility of G r me's oeuvre, its double identity, both erudite and popular, which now renders it so precious to art historians and to the general public.

LC Classification NumberND553