Sir Joshua Reynolds : the painter in society
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Sir Joshua Reynolds : the painter in society
Harvard University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780674809666
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Sir Joshua Reynolds explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new way of interpreting portraiture.
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:pbk ISBN 9780674809673
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That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynold's success - in his life and in his work - as the art of painting. Conceived as an experiment in cultural criticism, written along the fault lines of art history and literary studies, this text explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing another view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a different way of interpreting portraiture.
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