John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion Redford Bruce
John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion Redford Bruce A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitistThe work…
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John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion Redford Bruce
A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitistThe work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. Throughout his career, Sargent was recognized and rewarded as a "Young Master" whose bravura portraits inspired comparison with the likes of Vel zquez, Van Dyck, and Reynolds. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the web of visual quotations and references that informed Sargent's most ambitious paintings.
Sargent achieved this complex synthesis through a pictorial language composed of witty acts of allusion.John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion offers the first sustained At the same time, his paintings responded to the stylistic experiments and cultural preoccupations of a world on the cusp of modernity.