约翰·辛格·萨金特和《典故的艺术》首次对画家的引用实践进行了持续的探究,这一实践创造了一种复杂的视觉代码。雷德福德通过对肖像画和类似文学文本的主题分组进行比较分析,展示了萨金特是如何设计和传递这种密码的。其结果是对萨金特大胆的游戏技巧,他在肖像画史上的地位,以及在艺术和文学中的动态典故的认识增强。 A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist
The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the web of visual quotations and references that informed Sargent’s most ambitious paintings. Throughout his career, Sargent was recognized and rewarded as a “Young Master” whose bravura portraits inspired comparison with the likes of Velázquez, Van Dyck, and Reynolds. At the same time, his paintings responded to the stylistic experiments and cultural preoccupations of a world on the cusp of modernity. Sargent achieved this complex synthesis through a pictorial language composed of witty acts of allusion.
John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion offers the first sustained inquiry into the painter’s practice of quotation—one that created a complex visual code. Through comparative analysis among thematic groupings of portraits and analogous literary texts, Redford shows how Sargent devised and transmitted that code. The result is an enhanced awareness of Sargent’s daring gamesmanship, his place in the history of portraiture, and the dynamics of allusion in both art and literature.
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