Desperately Young
ACC Art Books (Verlag)
978-1-78884-084-2 (ISBN)
Desperately Young
introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising
stars in fine art - all of whom died before their thirtieth birthday.
Precocious
talent seeps from each artist's work, along with a sense of unfulfilled
potential. Informative biographies detail their legacies, while their
tragic deaths lead us to wonder what heights they might've reached, had
their lives not been cut short. Richly illustrated, Desperately Young
presents prime examples of each artist's work, demonstrating how our
cultural heritage is just a little narrower for their loss.
From
Europe to America to Japan and the Indian Subcontinent, the
mid-14-hundreds to the late 20th century, this book hails the
acknowledged greats and introduces those who died before they could
leave an indelible mark on history. A compendium of 109 artists who fell
prey to sickness, warfare, heartbreak or bad luck, Desperately Young is the only book to provide an in-depth study of artists who died young.
Contents:
With works from Tommaso Masaccio, Frédéric Bazille, Thomas Girtin, Egon
Schiele, Henri Regnault, Ernst Klimt, Jeanne Hébuterne, Kaita Murayama,
Hermann Stenner, Maurycy Gottlieb, Fyodor Vasilyev, Marie Bashkirtseff,
Richard Parkes Bonington, Luisa Anguissola, Walter Deverell, August
Macke, Pauline Boty and Jean-Michel Basquiat - among many others.
Vern G. Swanson was born in Central Point, Oregon, and studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. He received his doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Swanson has been researching, authenticating and cataloguing British and Continental classical and academic paintings since 1973. He was Museum Director of Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah for thirty-two years until his retirement in 2012. His authored publications include J.W. Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, as well as two major books on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, six books on Russian and Soviet art, and five books on Utah painting and sculpture. Angela Swanson Jones, daughter of Vern Swanson, grew up in an art museum and followed her father throughout the world visiting libraries, galleries and auction houses. Also a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (master's degree), she is now the Director of Swanson-Jones Fine Art Consulting and an avid collector and writer in her own right. Her topics of research include Newlyn School Painting and Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Religious Art. She is currently writing a biography and catalogue raisonné on the German painter, Heinrich Hofmann (1824-1911). She has published essays and articles with Fine Art Connoisseur, among others.
Contents: With works from Tommaso Masaccio, Frederic Bazille, Thomas Girtin, Egon Schiele, Henri Regnault, Ernst Klimt, Jeanne Hebuterne, Kaita Murayama, Hermann Stenner, Maurycy Gottlieb, Fyodor Vasilyev, Marie Bashkirtseff, Richard Parkes Bonington, Luisa Anguissola, Walter Deverell, August Macke, Pauline Boty and Jean-Michel Basquiat - among many others.
"It’s a testimony to Desperately Young’s worth that I was often engaged by remarkable talents I knew absolutely nothing about. The biographies never glamourise, instead offering insights on several remarkable individuals while historic events (primarily war) weigh heavily on the pages."
"In examining the many artists who died before the age of 30, authors Angela Swanson Jones and Vern G. Swanson examine 109 stories in their book Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties (ACC Art Books, 2020). The authors insist that their work is not born out of some sort of “morbid fascination” but instead out of the impulse to imbue their subjects and the art they created with “abiding honour, recognition, and consolation."
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 121 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 240 x 285 mm |
| Gewicht | 1660 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78884-084-4 / 1788840844 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78884-084-2 / 9781788840842 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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