- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press (31 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0271017007
- ISBN-13: 978-0271017006
- Product Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,001,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Studio companion of Monet and Renoir, protege of Courbet, and friend of Manet, Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) is more often remembered for the financial assistance he provided to future Impressionists than for his own vivid and often unsettling work. In this book devoted to Bazille, Dianne Pitman seeks to situate this often overlooked artist within the complex and contradictory art world of the 1860s. In the process, she provides an understanding of the modernist tradition. Pitman examines a series of major paintings and critical essays by Bazille and his contemporaries and frames them within the modernist discourse about purity, or respecting the proper limits of the medium. She stresses the problem of pose - the way in which painted subjects seem to respond to the artist's presence and the implied presence of the beholder - and explores his responses to the new medium of photography, the idea of painting without subject matter, the burden of tradition and the problematic of self-portraiture.As these themes again come to the fore in much of the most controversial art and criticism of the late 20th century, this study also represents a contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the oppositions and continuities between modernism and postmodernism.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well, I lucked onto this one. Best new ideas in months. It's worth reading this book just for the chapter on the influence the emerging craft of Photography had on the Impressionists. After I read it I longed to be able to hash out points with the author, looking at Bazille as a modernist trying to find "the point of view of painting" as he called it.
It's not a biography, though it tells his story. I guess everyone wonders what Bazille would have become if he'd lived. A major painter of his day, a patron of his wild and later famous friends, or both? This book makes a powerful case for his painting and his point of view, and advances some intriguing theories about theatricality, pure art, posing and gaze for photography and painting of the time.
This is a massive, solid scholarly work with a gorgeous cover. Enough to drool over.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Eye-opening view of Impressionist experimentor
13 Jan 1999
Format:Hardcover
Well, I lucked onto this one. Best new ideas in months. It's worth reading this book just for the chapter on the influence the emerging craft of Photography had on the Impressionists. After I read it I longed to be able to hash out points with the author, looking at Bazille as a modernist trying to find "the point of view of painting" as he called it.
It's not a biography, though it tells his story. I guess everyone wonders what Bazille would have become if he'd lived. A major painter of his day, a patron of his wild and later famous friends, or both? This book makes a powerful case for his painting and his point of view, and advances some intriguing theories about theatricality, pure art, posing and gaze for photography and painting of the time.
This is a massive, solid scholarly work with a gorgeous cover. Enough to drool over.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
To much prose and little color
16 Aug 2006
Format:Hardcover
It's a shame there is only 8 color plates in the whole book.
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