Best in show : the dog in art from the Renaissance to today / Edgar Peters Bowron ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowron, Edgar Peters.

Bruce Museum.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dogs in art--Exhibitions.

Dogs in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; Houston : In association with The Museum of Fine Arts ; Greenwich : Bruce Museum, [2006]

Summary:

Best in Show brilliantly illuminates the captivating and intriguing history of the dog in art--offering myriad interpretations and irrefutable reasons for celebrating "the artist's best friend." This beautifully produced book features sixty works by such illustrious artists as Francis Bacon, Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dali, Lucien Freud, Thomas Gainsborough, Edouard Manet, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Four fascinating essays by distinguished scholars discuss the dog in the context of the art of the 16th through the 21st centuries; examine the purebred and how breeds have developed and changed over the years; and outline the results of scientific inquiry over the centuries regarding the nature of dogs. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science.

Contents:

An artist's best friend: the dog in Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture / Edgar Peters Bowron

From the royal hunt to the taxidermist: a dog's history of modern art / Robert Rosenblum

The purebred dog in art: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / William Secord

Notes on the nature of dogs / Carolyn Rose Rebbert.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Conn. May 6-Aug. 27, 2006, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 1, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.

ISBN:

0300115881

0890901430

OCLC:

65165426

Publisher Number:

9780300115888

9780890901434

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