Fellow Men (eBook)

Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting

Bridget Alsdorf (Autor)

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2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4512-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting. Through close readings of some of the most ambitious paintings of the realist and impressionist generation, Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters understood the shifting boundaries of their social world, and reveals the fragile masculine bonds that made up the avant-garde.A dedicated realist who veered between extremes of sociability and hermetic isolation, Fantin-Latour painted group dynamics over the course of two decades, from 1864 to 1885. This was a period of dramatic change in French history and art--events like the Paris Commune and the rise and fall of impressionism raised serious doubts about the power of collectivism in art and life. Fantin-Latour's monumental group portraits, and related works by his friends and colleagues from the 1850s through the 1880s, represent varied visions of collective identity and test the limits of association as both a social and an artistic pursuit. By examining the bonds and frictions that animated their social circles, Fantin-Latour and his cohorts developed a new pictorial language for the modern group: one of fragmentation, exclusion, and willful withdrawal into interior space that nonetheless presented individuality as radically relational.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 42 color illus. 122 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Abgal (god) • A Burial At Ornans • Academic Art • Addendum • adultery • Age of Enlightenment • Alfred Sisley • Allegory • Allusion • Alois Riegl • Alphonse Legros • Ambiguity • Ambroise Vollard • Amsterdam University Press • Anomie • Antoine Guillemet • Apotheosis • Art criticism • Arthur Rimbaud • Bad Painting • Banality (sculpture series) • Bible • bohemian style • Boredom • Boudoir • Bourgeoisie • Camille Pissarro • Caricature • Carle Vernet • Cauchy–Schwarz inequality • Champfleury • Charles Baudelaire • Christie's • Cognate • combat • Corpus Coranicum • Criticism • Cubism • Cynicism (philosophy) • Degenerate Art • Distancing (psychology) • Easel • Edgar Allan Poe • Edgar Degas • Edmond de Goncourt • Edmund Gosse • Édouard Manet • Emmanuel Chabrier • enfant terrible • Exclusion • Exodus Rabbah • Farce • Fine Art • Foreskin • Formalism (art) • Frans Hals • French Art • Friedrich Engels • Garrett Stewart • Genre • Genre painting • George Washington Cable • Georg Simmel • God • Gustave Caillebotte • Gustave Courbet • Gustave Moreau • Hedda Sterne • henri fantin-latour • History Painting • Homage (arts) • Homosexuality • Horace Vernet • Human voice • hyperbole • Impressionism • Individualism • informality • Integrator • Interdiction • Jacques Derrida • Jacques-Louis David • J. Alden Weir • James Abbott McNeill Whistler • James Tissot • Jan van Eyck • jean-auguste-dominique ingres • Johannes Brahms • John Ashbery • John Chrysostom • John Rewald • Joseph de Maistre • Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo • Jules Dalou • L'artiste • Las Meninas • La Vie (painting) • Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe • Le Figaro • Les Nabis • Linda Nochlin • Literature • Livelihood • Louis Blanc • Luncheon of the Boating Party • Mannequin • Marjorie Perloff • Marthe • martyr • Mary Cassatt • Masculinity • Maurice Denis • Michael Fried • modernism • Modernity • month • moral responsibility • Music in the Tuileries • Narcissism • narrative • Nude (art) • obscenity • oil sketch • Omniscience • painting • Paul Delaroche • Paul Gauguin • Paul Verlaine • pejorative • photography • Physiognomy • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • piety • Poetry • postmodern literature • Pretext • private collection • Public morality • Quran • Rant (novel) • Realism (arts) • Rembrandt • René Girard • Review article • Rhode Island School of Design • ridicule • Rococo • Romanticism • seabed • secret society • Semitic root • Shades of Blue • Sketchbook • Social fact • Sociology • Soziologie • still life • Sublimation (psychology) • surah • terrorism • The Artist at Work • The Irascibles • The Painter's Studio • The Philosopher • Thought • T. J. Clark (art historian) • University of California Press • University of Chicago Press • University of Nebraska Press • Urban Culture • Verb • Virility • virtue • vocabulary • Walter Benjamin • Walter P. Chrysler Jr. • warfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4512-2 / 1400845122
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4512-5 / 9781400845125