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Overview
In this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated volume Georges Vigne examines Ingres's artistic life and brings together a staggering number of drawings, studies, and compositions. Guided by careful scrutiny of drawings and documents, Vigne reappraises deep-rooted assumptions and offers a wealth of candid insights on issues such as Ingres's faithful studio assistants, his official commissions that could weave in and out of political regimes, the legendary rivalries with Delacroix and the Romantics, and the curious motivation behind Ingres's seemingly endless line of copies and revisions of his earlier compositions. Finally, as an indispensable resource to scholars, this volume reproduces, with Vigne's methodical transcriptions and annotations, the valuable pages of the notebooks in which Ingres listed and referred to his paintings. This authoritative volume on Ingres is also the most complete monograph on any artist of his generation and a valuable chronicle of the man behind the last great studio in the classical tradition.Editorials
Library Journal
Nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who spent a good deal of time in Italy, interpreted the classical with rhythmic grace in his drawings and paintings and exhibited an underlying line that influenced Matisse, Picasso, and other great artists. Many of his seemingly "perfect" likenesses are, upon closer examination, disproportionate-the hands too large, the arms connected peculiarly to the shoulder-demonstrating Ingres's inclination to artifice, not to nature. In the appendix, Vigne, curator of the Muse Ingres in Montauban, France, shows that the artist was as much in control of his career as his work: Ingres's notebook inventories, including facsimiles, provide a mine of material for art historians. A bibliography, including many items in French, and an exhibition list prove the artist's continuing popular and scholarly appeal. This well-rounded book, which will make Ingres more accessible to English-speaking readers, is recommended for special collections on French art, 19th-century art, and modern art as well as comprehensive public and museum collections.-Ellen Bates, New YorkBook Details
Published
October 26, 1995
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Pages
351
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780789200600