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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 first complete book in English 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 greatly refines our understanding of the modernist tradition.
Bazille: Purity, Pose and Painting in the 1860s FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 first complete book in English 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 greatly refines our understanding of the modernist tradition.
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This is the first complete volume in English devoted to an often overlooked Parisian artist who died at 28 in 1870. Independent California researcher, and friend/financier of future French Impressionists, Pitman scrutinizes Bazille's paintings ( is best-known) and critical essays, framed by modern-postmodern tensions over purity (the essence of the medium) and pose (the subject's role as object). Other themes include his responses to photography, and the burden of tradition. Includes 141 illustrations (eight of them color plates). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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