Fernand Khnopff : portrait of Jeanne Kéfer / Michel Draguet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draguet, Michel.

Series:

Getty Museum studies on art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khnopff, Fernand, 1858-1921. Jeanne Kéfer.

Khnopff, Fernand.

Khnopff, Fernand, 1858-1921--Criticism and interpretation.

Khnopff, Fernand, 1858-1921.

Symbolism (Art movement)--Belgium.

Symbolism (Art movement).

Criticism and interpretation.

Belgium.

Physical Description:

108 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Publications, [2004]

Summary:

A small girl stands with her back to the door of a drawing room in a bourgeois residence in Brussels in the 1880s. Her outfit and the setting tell us that she belongs to the prosperous middle class of Belgium, which had just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of independence from the Netherlands. Soberly dressed, Jeanne Kefer fixes her eyes on the spectator with an intensity rare for her age. Magnified by Fernand Khnopff's brush, the little girl's presence is testimony to an adventure begun a year earlier in Brussels: that of Les XX (The Twenty), a group of avant-garde artists who, from 1884 to 1893, exhibited works by artists from across Europe chosen to incarnate the idea of modernity, from James McNeill Whistler to Vincent van Gogh, from Georges Seurat to James Ensor.

Contents:

A Little Girl at the Center of the Avant-Garde 1

Producing a Portrait 23

The Portrait in Perspective 81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-104).

ISBN:

089236730X

OCLC:

53824146