现货Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression[9781409441649]

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作者Evans, Dorinda

出版社Routledge

ISBN9781409441649

出版时间2013-01

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页数256页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-06-09

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商品描述: Early American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial failure. To explain his stylistic unevenness as an artist, he is assumed to have had an inferior assistant, but the documentary evidence for an assistant who painted on his portraits is non-existent–in fact, there is evidence to the contrary. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that Stuart suffered from a hereditary form of manic depression, leading him to create pictures that contain peculiar lapses characteristic of a manic-depressive, or bipolar, artist. Using documentary and empirical evidence–from diaries and letters to x-radiographs of paintings–this book fills important gaps in our knowledge of Stuart, and connects the strange visual effects in some of Stuart''s paintings with cognitive deficits attendant with the disorder. In addition to Stuart, other bipolar artists, including George Romney, Raphaelle Peale, Gilbert Stuart

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