The great French artist Claude Lorrain (16001682)for whom drawing was an integral part of the artistic processspent most of his career in Italy, where he documented the beauty of the landscape and the splendor of classical ruins. This richly illustrated book examines the wide-ranging role the medium played throughout Claude's career. The book presents some of Claude’s most remarkable drawings, representing all aspects of his style and subject matterfrom informal outdoor sketches of trees, rivers, and ruins to formal presentation drawings and elaborate compositional designs for paintings, many of which have never before been reproduced in color. A detailed and scholarly essay places them within the social and cultural contexts of their time and includes comparative illustrations of paintings and etchings to situate them within the artist's oeuvre. A selection of works from the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), a portfolio of highly finished drawings that the artist created to document his own painted compositions, is also included.

Claude Lorrain--The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum

Arts & Photography

Rand, Richard

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Portraiture is an enduring genre that has captivated artists and viewers for hundreds of years. From the late 15th through the early 19th century, artists continued to find new ways of approaching the portrait by exploring a range of styles, strategies, and themes. In this beautiful book, noted scholars discuss these various approaches and explain how they apply to specific examples, focusing on thirty superb portraits drawn from a distinguished private collection. 
Although many of these portraits are by renowned artists such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hans Memling, and Anthony van Dyck, others testify to the talents of lesser-known artists who are equally deserving of attention. Moreover, several of the featured paintings are previously unpublished, including works by Giovanni Battista Moroni, Parmigianino, Jusepe de Ribera, and Peter Paul Rubens.

Eye to Eye: European Portraits, 1450-1850

Morris, Kathleen M.

Clark Art Institute

Paintings by such celebrated eighteenth-century artists as Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, and Boilly have long been admired for their charming and intimate subjects--fêtes galantes, pastorals, tableaux de mode, middle-class domestic interiors, and scenes of family life and romantic love--and for their pleasing color schemes. In this lavishly illustrated and produced book, genre painting is explored for the first time within the broader cultural context of Enlightenment France. Through a series of innovative and lively essays dealing largely with aspects of art, gender, and politics in the decades preceding the French Revolution, Intimate Encounters enables us to appreciate genre paintings anew: although they are almost always attractive to the eye, sometimes to the point of appearing fanciful, the paintings also bear the intellectual imprint of turbulent times. the interactions of "ordinary" people--nonhistorical, nonmythic figures--within the family and in romantic encounters. We learn that genre painters tended to infuse their depictions of intimacy with moral and ideological significance. Their imagery coincided with fundamental debates over gender roles and relationships, the family, child-rearing, and illicit versus conjugal love, topics that were crucial to such writers and social commentators as Rousseau, Diderot, and Laclos.
 Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, Intimate Encounters contains five essays written by specialists from a variety of disciplines, which are followed by fifty-one full catalog entries on the paintings included in the show. The essays delve into such matters as art criticism and the presence of women in cultural life (Richard Rand), the family and the ideology of sentimentalism (Sarah Maza), the influence of innovative theater on genre painting (Mark Ledbury), the debate over women's rights (Virginia Swain), and the production and marketing of prints to a growing art audience (Anne L. Schroder).

Intimate Encounters

Princeton University Press

Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text.
Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel’s philosophy and Jean Genet’s fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question “types” of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation.

Glas

Literature & Fiction

DERRIDA, JACQUES

Leavey, John P., Jr.

Literary

University Of Nebraska Press

Book by Conisbee, Philip, Freeman, Judi, Rand, Richard

Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections

Conisbee, Philip

Freeman, Judi

Los Angeles County Museum

Appears new. NO sign of use or wear. Spine unopened. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Softcover. 0875871607 . Interior is clean, bright, and unmarked; exterior clean. One fold-out, profusely illustrated in color/b&amp;w. "The purpose of this catalogue is to celebrate twenty years of Ahmanson gifts by publishing them all in full color, together with scholarly entries that present the current state of knowledge about each piece."; 11.5" tall; 207 pages . Sold by Friends of the Fullerton Library. 16

The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Levkoff, Mary L.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Claude Lorrain: The Painter as Draftsman by Rand, Richard (2007) Paperback

Yale University Press/The Clark

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum

The catalogue of an exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10 - September 3, 1995. 32 works by Canaletto and 24 by Piranesi are described. Illustrated with 16 plates. 29 figures accompany the text.

Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi

Varriano, John L.

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Hood Museum of Art

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