John Singer Sargent and His Muse - Painting Love and Loss

Informationen zum Autor By Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman - Foreword by Richard Ormond Klappentext This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent's art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, who married the only son of Andre Michel, the foremost art historian of his day. Robert was a promising historian as well, until the Great War claimed him in 1914. His widow Rose-Marie served as a nurse for blinded French soldiers until she too was killed in 1918. Sargent expressed his grief on canvas, painting ruined French churches and, in Gassed, blinded soldiers; he made his last murals for the Boston Public Library a cryptic memorial to Rose-Marie and her beloved Robert. Drawing on a rich trove of letters, diaries, and journals, this beautifully illustrated history brings Sargent and his times to vivid life. Zusammenfassung This compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family, many of whom died in WWI. Sargent expressed his grief on canvas, painting the war’s devastation. Drawing on a rich trove of letters, diaries, and journals, this beautifully illustrated history brings Sargent and his times to life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Painter and the Critic: John Sargent and André MichelChapter 2: The Ormonds and the SargentsChapter 3: Rose-Marie OrmondChapter 4: Robert André-MichelChapter 5: Robert's War, 1914Chapter 6: Rose-Marie's War, 1914-1918Chapter 7: The Paris GunChapter 8: Sargent's War, 1914-1919Chapter 9: The End of The Triumph of ReligionChapter 10: EpiloguesBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Karen Corsano, Karen Williman Corsano, Corsano Karen, Daniel Williman, Williman Daniel
• Assisted by: Richard Ormond (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2017
• EAN: 9781442269989
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6998-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Paintings and painting, European Studies