- Blurb -
At the time of his death in 1806, the rococo artist Jean-Honore Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter' s reputation fell. Fragonard: Painting Out of Time takes this prolonged artistic silence as a point of departure to investigate the maverick personality of Fragonard within the lively society of eighteenth-century France. Personally secretive, Fragonard nevertheless created revealing images that undermined a normal sense of space and time. Satish Padiyar investigates the life and work of the last of the libertine painters of the ancien regime, a contemporary of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and presents dramatic new perspectives on works such as The Progress of Love, painted for Madame du Barry, the infamous The Bolt, and the ever-popular The Swing. ' A brilliant new account of Fragonard' s art that reveals some of its most intriguing secrets. ' - Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University, and author of The Painter' s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard' Deeply erudite. . . Fragonard might be taken to embody brilliantly gifted eccentricity, but the author deploys that singularity in ways that illuminate the whole field of later eighteenth-century art. ' - Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, New York University
- Reviews -
"A brilliant new account of Fragonard' s art that reveals some of its most intriguing secrets. "--Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University, and author of The Painter' s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard "Deeply erudite. . . . Fragonard might be taken to embody brilliantly gifted eccentricity, but the author deploys that singularity in ways that illuminate the whole field of later eighteenth-century art. "--Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, New York University
- Author Bio -
Satish Padiyar is Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art. His previous publications include Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France (2007).
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9781789142099 |
Published: | 1 Sep 2020 |
Published In: | United Kingdom |
Imprint: | Reaktion Books |
Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Height: | 250mm |
Width: | 190mm |
Pages: | 304 |
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