Degas

Arts & Photography

DUNLOP, Ian

History & Criticism

Galley Press

Dust jacket notes: "Several hundred thousand furious Frenchmen couldn't be wrong--or could they? When seven turning-point exhibitions of new works of art opened in Paris, London, New York, Munich, between 1863 and the untamed Surrealist show of 1938, people came in droves and in droves they rejected and jeered at works now considered great. At the Salon des Refuses Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe was greeted with abuse; the Impressionists fared little better at their first exhibition in 1874; Matisse's Woman with a Hat became a storm center at the Salon d'Automne of 1905; the Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910 in London provoked a revolution in English taste; in New York Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase made the Armory Show a cause celebre; Hitler's exhibition of so-called Degenerate Art in Munich in 1937--visited by two million people--was meant to condemn what we now regard as best in modern German art; the opening of the International Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1938 nearly caused a riot. The Shock of the New superbly re-creates the context in which these judgments were made and unmade as the way was paved for the ultimate acceptance and triumph of the new art. It tells of the artists' fighting back against official opinion by organizing their won shows, and cites the varied, sometimes brilliant and prophetic criticism of men like Thore, Zola , Roger Fry, and Andre Breton. Beautifully juxtaposed are some of the great classics of modern art and now forgotten pictures-of-the-year, along with contemporary comment, letters, memoirs, newspapers, and cartoons. "This volume captures the feverish excitement of the changing art scenes as new concepts, new styles new forms burst upon the world. It is also an important contribution to understanding artistic developments, the slow reformulation of taste, and the public predicament when confronting the shock of the new. And it raises the vital question of whether current tolerance for anything new is a s

The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art

American Heritage Press, New York

Chateaux of the Loire

Hamilton

VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents, decorated pastedowns. Ex Library with stamps/labels, etc

Versailles

Architecture

Royal Palaces of France

Literature & Fiction

Hamish Hamilton

Presents the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century monuments of Burgundy, discusses some of the people who lived there, and recounts the historic events that took place at each of them

Burgundy

Travel

Europe

Viking Pr

Shock of the New

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Reproductions of the artist's work combine with a biographical sketch to reveal his contributions to the expressionist movement

Edvard Munch

St Martins Pr

Setting in motion events that would ultimately bring his nation to military and fiscal ruin-and his dynasty to a bloody end-Louis XIV also established France as the preeminent and, to this day, unchallenged seat of high culture in Europe. As a leader he simultaneously squandered a dominion's political capital and established a nation's spiritual hegemony. As a man he married brilliance and arrogance, shrewdness and excess. Ian Dunlop explores the Sun King's many facets in this remarkable new biography. Understanding Louis in the context of his era, one of great strides for French artists, litterateurs, and architects, Dunlop presents the king as an inspirer, an enabler, and a patron of his country's best and brightest minds. But even as his armies of laborers built the magnificent palace at Versailles, Louis' warmongering brought the greatest power in Europe-his own-to repeated and humiliating defeats at the hands of more calculating foes. Ironically, Louis' mixed legacy developed a culture that would become the envy of the world.

Louis XIV

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

St.Martin's Press

Dunlop, Ian, Royal Palaces Of France

The royal palaces of France

W.W.Norton&Company

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