The Learned Draftsman - Edme Bouchardon
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The Learned Draftsman - Edme Bouchardon

The Learned Draftsman - Edme Bouchardon

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Edouard Kopp (Author)  

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One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France,Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze).With five essays by experts on Bouchardon's sculpture and graphic arts, more than 140 catalogue entries, and a detailed chronology, this book aims to demonstrate the originality of Bouchardon's art within the cultural and social context of the period, while suggesting the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman.This lavishly illustrated publication represents anunprecedented and thorough survey on this major andunique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering in-depth scholarship based on unpublished material detailingthe subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman. 149 color + 15 b/w illus.
Edouard Kopp is the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings, Harvard Art Museums. He is the coauthor, with Scott Allan, of Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau (Getty Publications, 2016) and the author of Capturing Nature s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes (Getty Publications, 2009). "
  • Contributor: Edouard Kopp
  • Imprint: Getty Publications
  • ISBN13: 9781606065044
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Packaged Dimensions: 234x267x32mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1338
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
  • Release Date: 2017-01-06
  • Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Edouard Kopp is the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings, Harvard Art Museums. He is the coauthor, with Scott Allan, of Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau (Getty Publications, 2016) and the author of Capturing Nature s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes (Getty Publications, 2009). "

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