Fellow men : Fantin-Latour and the problem of the group in nineteenth-century French painting / Bridget Alsdorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alsdorf, Bridget, author.

Contributor:

Princeton University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904--Criticism and interpretation.

Fantin-Latour, Henri.

Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904.

Art and society--France--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Artists--France--Portraits.

Artists.

Group identity in art.

Portrait painting, French--19th century.

Portrait painting, French.

Portraits, Group--France.

Portraits, Group.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages) : 169 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting.... Bridget Alsdorf offers new insights into how French painters understood the shifting boundaries of their social world, and reveals the fragile masculine bonds that made up the avant-garde. A dedicated realist who veered between extremes of sociability and hermetic isolation, Fantin-Latour painted group dynamics over the course of two decades, from 1864 to 1885. This was a period of dramatic change in French history and art--events like the Paris Commune and the rise and fall of impressionism raised serious doubts about the power of collectivism in art and life. Fantin-Latour's monumental group portraits, and related works by his friends and colleagues from the 1850s through the 1880s, represent varied visions of collective identity and test the limits of association as both a social and an artistic pursuit. By examining the bonds and frictions that animated their social circles, Fantin-Latour and his cohorts developed a new pictorial language for the modern group: one of fragmentation, exclusion, and willful withdrawal into interior space that nonetheless presented individuality as radically relational"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The self in group portraiture

A crisis of pride

Studio of the self

Deviance and disappearance

The Irregularists.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-322) and index.

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on July 2, 2019).

ISBN:

9781400845125

1400845122

9780300249682

0300249683

OCLC:

1107050796

Publisher Number:

40021701624