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Strapless

Author	: Deborah Davis
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2004-05-03
ISBN 10	: 9781440628184
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (281 users)

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Download or read book Strapless written by Deborah Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau's dress dangling from her shoulder, suggesting either the prelude to or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation irreparably damaged, Gautreau retired from public life, destroying all the mirrors in her home. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal.

An Intimate Affair

Author	: Jill Fields
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 0520223691
Pages	: 375 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book An Intimate Affair written by Jill Fields and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Icons of Beauty: Art, Culture, and the Image of Women [2 volumes]

Author	: Lindsay J. Bosch
Publisher	: Greenwood
Release Date	: 2009-12-22
ISBN 10	: 9780313081569
Pages	: 746 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (815 users)

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Download or read book Icons of Beauty: Art, Culture, and the Image of Women [2 volumes] written by Lindsay J. Bosch and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished. Icons of Beauty offers an enthralling overview of the most revered icons of female beauty in world art from pre-history to the present. From images of Eve to Cindy Sherman's self-portraits, from Cleopatra to Madonna, from ancient goddesses to modern celebrities, this interdisciplinary set offers fresh insight as to how we can use perceptions of beauty to learn about world cultures, both past and present. Each chapter looks at an individual work of art to pose a question about the power of beauty. What makes beauty modern? What is the influence of celebrities? How do women portray their own beauty in a different manner than men? In-depth profiles of the icons reveal how specific ideas about beauty were developed and expressed, offering a full analysis of their history, cultural significance, and lasting influence. In addition to renowned works of art, Icons of Beauty also looks at icons in literature, film, politics, and contemporary entertainment. Interdisciplinary and multicultural in its approach, chapters inside this set also feature sidebars on provocative topics and issues, such as foot binding and body adornment; myths and practices; opinions and interpretations; and even related films, songs, and even comic book characters. Generously illustrated, this rich set encompasses history, politics, society, women's studies, and art history, making it an indispensable resource for high school and college students as well as general readers.

John Singer Sargent and His Muse

Author	: Karen Corsano
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2014-08-07
ISBN 10	: 9781442230514
Pages	: 340 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book John Singer Sargent and His Muse written by Karen Corsano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own deepening affection for her serene beauty and good-hearted, candid charm. Rose-Marie married Robert, the only son of André Michel, the foremost art historian of his day, who had known Sargent and reviewed his paintings in the Paris Salons of the 1880s. Robert was a promising historian as well, until the Great War claimed him first as an infantry sergeant, then a victim, in 1914. His widow Rose-Marie served as a nurse in a rehabilitation hospital for blinded French soldiers until she too was killed, crushed under a bombed church vault, in 1918. Sargent expressed his grief, as he expressed all his emotions, on canvas: He painted ruined French churches and, in Gassed, blinded soldiers; he made his last murals for the Boston Public Library a cryptic memorial to Rose-Marie and her beloved Robert. Braiding together the lives and families of Rose-Marie, Robert, and John Sargent, the book spans their many worlds—Paris, the Alps, London, the Soissons front, and Boston. Drawing on a rich trove of letters, diaries, and journals, this beautifully illustrated history brings Sargent and his times to vivid life.

The Greater Journey

Author	: David McCullough
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2011-05-24
ISBN 10	: 9781416576891
Pages	: 576 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (768 users)

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Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, the intellectual, scientific, and artistic capital of the western world, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.

My Grandma Loves This!

Author	: Samuel Brock
Publisher	: Lennex
Release Date	: 2013-03
ISBN 10	: 5458823281
Pages	: 44 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book My Grandma Loves This! written by Samuel Brock and published by Lennex. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality or intimacy. Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. 2. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. 3. You've heard it all.

"Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 "

Author	: Susan Waller
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-07-05
ISBN 10	: 9781351566919
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (669 users)

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Download or read book "Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 " written by Susan Waller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Americas during a period of burgeoning global immigration. Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars - including several whose work has not been previously published in English - address the experiences of foreign exiles, immigrants, students and expatriates. They explore the formal and informal structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and in some cases fashion new, transnational identities in the City of Light. Considering Paris from an innovative global perspective, the book situates both important modern artists - such as Edvard Munch, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall and Gino Severini - and lesser-known American, Czech, Italian, Polish, Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, and Hungarian painters, sculptors, writers, dancers, and illustrators within the larger trends of international mobility and cultural exchange. Broadly appealing to historians of modern art and history, the essays in this volume characterize Paris as a thriving transnational arts community in which the interactions between diverse cultures, peoples and traditions contributed to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art.

Party of the Century

Author	: Deborah Davis
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
Release Date	: 2006-02-24
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106018185089
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Party of the Century written by Deborah Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-02-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling look at acclaimed writer Truman Capote's most celebrated party of the 1960s, a masked ball in honor of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham at New York's Plaza Hotel, is lavishly illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of the guest list, menus, masks, and other memorabilia.

Anarchists, Beats and Dadaists

Author	: Jim Burns
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9781326446543
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (465 users)

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Download or read book Anarchists, Beats and Dadaists written by Jim Burns and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boston's Apollo

Author	: Erica E. Hirshler
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2020-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9780300249866
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (498 users)

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Download or read book Boston's Apollo written by Erica E. Hirshler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962) a young African American elevator attendant at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller became the principal model for Sargent's murals in the new wing of the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, among the painter's most ambitious works. Sargent's nude studies and sketches from this project attest to a close collaboration between the two men that unfolded over nearly ten years. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner and published in full for the first time, a portrait of McKeller, and archival materials reconstructing his life and relationship with Sargent, this book opens new avenues into artist-model relationships and transforms our understanding of Sargent's iconic American paintings. Essays offer the first biography of Thomas McKeller and a window into African America life in early 20th century Roxbury. They address the artist's sexuality, his models, and consider questions of race and gender.

The Trip

Author	: Deborah Davis
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2016-08-30
ISBN 10	: 9781476703527
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book The Trip written by Deborah Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey - and the numerous artists and celebrities he encountered - profoundly affected his life and art"--

Edwardians on Screen

Author	: Katherine Byrne
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2015-09-22
ISBN 10	: 9781137467898
Pages	: 173 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (678 users)

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Download or read book Edwardians on Screen written by Katherine Byrne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton Abbey , it examines how the early twentieth century is represented on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender and politics, both past and present.

Religion, Art, and Money

Author	: Peter W. Williams
Publisher	: UNC Press Books
Release Date	: 2016-02-24
ISBN 10	: 9781469626987
Pages	: 296 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (269 users)

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Download or read book Religion, Art, and Money written by Peter W. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.

The Hundred Dresses

Author	: Erin McKean
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2013-06-20
ISBN 10	: 9781472535856
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (358 users)

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Download or read book The Hundred Dresses written by Erin McKean and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sack to the Sari, each dress makes a powerful statement about the woman who wears it. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive and witty look at what one hundred iconic dress styles, vintage and modern say about their wearers. Each beautifully illustrated entry looks at the history of that particular style, famous wearers (if applicable), possible accessories, where the style could be observed, and what message, subtle or overt, is conveyed by the dress. Featured are The Wench; The Vreeland; The Wrap; The Austen; The Beckham; The Siren (any style, as long as it's red); The Chanel Ingénue; The Caftan; The Guinevere; The Jackie; ; The Biohazard (any dress dangerous to bystanders or the wearer: think Lady Gaga); and many more. Part style commentary, part fashion blueprint, part clever field guide, The Hundred Dresses will ensure that no woman (or man) ever underestimates the power of the dress.

Glamour

Author	: Stephen Gundle
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Release Date	: 2009-07-16
ISBN 10	: 9780191623370
Pages	: 502 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (233 users)

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Download or read book Glamour written by Stephen Gundle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic? Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace. Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled.

Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality

Author	: Melanie C. Hawthorne
Publisher	: Liverpool University Press
Release Date	: 2021-01-23
ISBN 10	: 9781789622737
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (227 users)

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Download or read book Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality written by Melanie C. Hawthorne and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.

Love, Fiercely

Author	: Jean Zimmerman
Publisher	: HMH
Release Date	: 2012-03-13
ISBN 10	: 9780547760513
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (65 users)

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Download or read book Love, Fiercely written by Jean Zimmerman and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the New York society couple portrayed in the John Singer Sargent painting—an architect and an heiress who became passionate reformers. Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege—her grandparents built the world’s fastest clipper ship, while his family owned most of Murray Hill. Theirs was a world filled with mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European vacations. This fascinating biography re-creates the glittering world of Edith Minturn and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes—and reveals how their love for each other was matched by their dedication to others. Newton became a passionate preserver of New York history and published the finest collection of Manhattan maps and views in a six-volume series. Edith became the face of the age when Daniel Chester French sculpted her for Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, a colossus intended to match the Statue of Liberty’s grandeur. But beyond their life of prominence and prestige, Edith and Newton battled together on behalf of New York’s poor and powerless—and through it all, sustained a strong-rooted marriage. From the splendid cottages of the Berkshires to the salons of 1890s Paris, Love, Fiercely tells the real-life story behind Mr. and Mrs. I .N. Phelps Stokes—one of the Gilded Age’s most famous works of art. “With an impressive amount of research behind every page, Zimmerman manages to capture the sweeping drama of the turn of the century as well as the compelling story of a couple who knew how to love, fiercely. Her superb pacing and gripping narrative will appeal to all who enjoy history, biography, and real-life romance.” —Library Journal