Fragonard: Painting Out of Time by Padiyar, Satish

Fragonard: Painting Out of Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789142099)

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Format: Hardcover
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Fragonard: Painting Out of Time by Padiyar, Satish

Fragonard: Painting Out of Time

$59.00
Fragonard: Painting Out of Time by Padiyar, Satish

Fragonard: Painting Out of Time

$59.00
Format: Hardcover
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At the time of his death in 1806, the rococo artist Jean-Honor Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter's reputation fell. Fragonard: Painting Out of Time takes this prolonged artistic silence as a point of departure to investigate the maverick personality of Fragonard within the lively society of eighteenth-century France. Personally secretive, Fragonard nevertheless created revealing images that undermined a normal sense of space and time. Satish Padiyar investigates the life and work of the last of the libertine painters of the ancien regime, a contemporary of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and presents dramatic new perspectives on works such as The Progress of Love, painted for Madame du Barry, the infamous The Bolt, and the ever-popular The Swing.

Author: Satish Padiyar
ISBN-10: 1789142091
ISBN-13: 9781789142099
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2020
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2021
By Satish Padiyar
By Satish Padiyar
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Satish Padiyar is an honorary research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His previous books include Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France.

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