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Vanishing Paradise
Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
Inbunden, 2013
763 kr
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In the late nineteenth century Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly Paradise, a primitive utopia distant geographically and culturally from the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque. Stimulated by fin de siecle longings for the exotic, a few adventurous artists sought out this Eden on the South Seas - …
Spectacle and Leisure in Paris
Degas to Mucha
Häftad, 2017
268 kr
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Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as the new art form of cinema flourished, all part …
Daumier and Exoticism
Satirizing the French and the Foreign
Av Elizabeth C. Childs, Moshe Barasch
Inbunden, 2004
824 kr
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Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the role of exoticism in his art, and to offer a detailed history of the journal Le Charivari in which the lithographs appeared. These satires of …
