Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), a French artist best known as a painter of mythological and allegorical scenes, also made chalk studies of nude figures - called academies - throughout his career. These drawings are the subject of this book, in which 57 examples of Prud'hon's work are accompanied by text exploring their style and what they say about the artist's place among his contemporaries.
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), a French artist best known as a painter of mythological and allegorical scenes, also made chalk studies of nude figures - called academies - throughout his career. These drawings are the subject of this book, in which 57 examples of Prud'hon's work are accompanied by text exploring their style and what they say about the artist's place among his contemporaries.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Excellent binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75"-14" tall); Painting illustration to jacket with title in blue lettering; 1996, Harry N Abrams Publishing; 221 pages; "Language of the Body, " by John Elderfield.
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Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. 9780810935853. Fine/VG 1st ed very large, imposing Abrams hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated high quality edition. Some light surface rubbing and indents with light surface scratches to rear panel of jacket else Fine and unmarked. Immediate dispatch Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0810935856. ISBN/EAN: 9780810935853. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 078454.
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Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated with 57 color plates and 57 duotone illustrations. 221pp. Short square folio, blue cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Abrams, (1996). First edition. Fine. Scarce monograph of Prud'homs fine figurative drawings.
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Illustrated by Prud'Hon, Pierre-Paul. New. 0810935856. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--221 pp--clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. "A treasure for connoisseurs and scholars, this volume showcases the ravishing chalk studies of male and female nude models made after 1800 by famous French painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Often called "the French Correggio" for his freewheeling mythological and allegorical canvases, Prud'hon (1758-1823) was an unorthodox public artist of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. The Romantic generation championed his melancholy, mysterious eroticism, which is on full display in these feminized male bodies and idealized female torsos. Chief curator at large for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Elderfield looks at Prud'hon's unhappy life? he separated from his violent, drunken wife after 25 years, gaining custody of his five children when she was committed to an insane asylum? and masterfully analyzes startling works that blur normally separated categories (masculine/feminine, platonic/passionate, cool/ecstatic) in a transgressive fantasy of desire. Gordon is an independent art historian." Book Review, by John Elderfield, From Publishers Weekly--with a bonus offer--; Folio-over 12"-15" tall.
