Burns, Thea, The art of the pastel , 2015
- Title(s):
- The art of the pastel / Thea Burns, Philippe Saunier.
- Additional Title(s):
- Art du pastel. English
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Published/Created:
- New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNC880 .B8613 2015 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12931910
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An illustrated, comprehensive survey of the fine art of pastel"-- Provided by publisher. - Subject Terms:
- Pastel drawing -- History.Pastel drawing.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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- Origins of the golden age: the invention of an art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
- A fashion for independent chalk drawing in Italy and France
- The early market for painting in pastel and its place in the Académie Royale
- Rosalba Carriera and 'The game of appearances'
- Maurice Quentin de la Tour and the triumph of pastel painting
- The golden age of pastel painting: France at midcentury
- The Turkish painter: Jean-Etienne Liotard of Geneva
- Women pastel painters of late eighteenth-century France
- British pastel artists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- John Russell, 'Prince of pastelists'
- Pastel in the British periphery: Ireland, Scotland, and America
- An audacious era: the nineteenth century
- A lengthy exile
- The past rediscovered
- The quest for legitimacy
- Outside the walls: pastel landscapes
- The revelation of Jean-François Millet
- The impressionist pastel
- Manet and the Parisian women of his time
- Degas and Cassatt: advocates of truth
- The nuances of Whistler
- The last word in elegance
- International renewal
- The exaltation of color
- The symbolist pastel
- Odilon Redon and the reinvention of pastel.