Fashioned by Sargent by Hirshler Erica E

Fashioned by Sargent by Hirshler Erica E

A lavish exploration of Sargent's relationship to fashion, featuring exquisite costumes from the Gilded Age

"The coat is the picture," John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever more tightly around his sitter's slender figure. More attentive to what he hoped to accomplish as a painter than he was to the dictates of contemporary fashion, Sargent often chose what his sitters would wear. Even when they came to him dressed in the latest mode, he frequently ignored or simplified the details, concentrating on texture, drape and the way fabrics responded to light. Exploiting dress as an integral ingredient of his own artistry, Sargent used clothes to proclaim his own aesthetic agenda while simultaneously establishing his sitters' social position, profession, gender identity and nationality.
Fashioned by Sargent explores the complicated relationship of painting and dress through lavish reproductions of Sargent's works alongside exquisite costumes of the period--including garments actually worn by his sitters. Essays by leading scholars illuminate topics such as portraits and performance, gender expression and the New Woman, and the pull of history and the excitement of new ideas, offering readers new insights into masterworks by a beloved American artist.
The international art star of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris and worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Sargent is best known for his dramatic and stylish portraits, but he was equally active as a landscapist, muralist and watercolor painter.

Elsa Smithgall is curator at The Phillips Collection. Erica E. Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Katherine M. Bourguignon is curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art. Giovanna Ginex is an independent curator for the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice. John Davis is executive director for Europe and global academic programs, Terra Foundation for American Art. D. Frederick Baker is director of the William Merritt Chase Catalogue Raisonn� Project.

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ISBN 13	9780878468942
ISBN 10	0878468943
Title	Fashioned by Sargent
Author	Erica Hirshler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Year published	2023-10-24
Number of pages	256
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