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Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780520225657
- Book Title
- Amazons in the Drawing Room : the Art of Romaine Brooks
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Museum Studies, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History / General
- Item Width
- 9.5in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Amazons in the Drawing Room presents a comprehensive and definitive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, reproducing for the first time in color thirty-four of the forty nudes and portraits she painted, as well as thirty-seven automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the seventeenth century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporary Gwen John, shaped an image of the androgynous New Woman for the twentieth century. An American born in Rome, Brooks spent most of her life in Paris. After a brief but passionate romance with the poet Gabriel D'Annunzio, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship, she turned to relationships with women and to art to express her emerging self. For many years the companion of Natalie Barney, whom the artist depicted as L'Amazone in one of her most famous portraits, Brooks belonged to the international lesbian community that included Compton and Faith MacKenzie, Renee Vivien, Radclyffe Hall (who immortalized Brooks as the barely fictionalized American painter Venetia Ford in The Forge ), and Una, Lady Troubridge. The milieu Brooks chose was the privileged, often eccentric demi-monde of wealthy aristocrats and expatriate writers, artists, intellectuals, and performers who gathered in Rome, London, Capri, Paris, and Florence. The social circles she traveled in included Somerset Maugham, Norman Douglas, Charles Freer, Count Robert de Montesquiou, Jean Cocteau, Augustus John, Carl Van Vechten, and Ida Rubenstein, several of whom were subjects for Brooks's portraits. Amazons in the Drawing Room , published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition of Brooks's work--the first since 1971--opening at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in June 2000, provides a fresh context to view Brooks's haunting and compelling art. Whitney Chadwick's overview of Brooks's life and artistic focus and Joe Luchesi's examination of Brooks's portraits and photographs of Russian dancer Ida Rubenstein bring into sharp focus the complex artistic, literary, and political influences that shaped Brooks's sensibility and approach to portraiture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520225651
ISBN-13
9780520225657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1667965
Product Key Features
Book Title
Amazons in the Drawing Room : the Art of Romaine Brooks
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Museum Studies, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
9.5in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N6537.B75 A4 2000
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-022434
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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This particular set of books was apparently in the hands of a very heavy smoker, as all of them reek of the smell of cigarette smoke; this should have been noted in the description of the product. We will have to get rid of this set, as it smells up the house - we are non-smokers, and have a low tolerance for the odor.
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Please note that all of our items come from a non-smoking home. Given the age of this set (from 1952), it may have developed a slight musty scent over time. This was an isolated incident, and I strive to accurately describe all items. Rest assured, I take great care in ensuring the quality of my books.
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