The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso - Hardcover

Dorothy Kosinski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300081685 ISBN 13: 9780300081688

Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art, 1999

Synopsis

Artists discovered and explored the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This stunning book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists of the period put this wondrous new medium” to use in their painting and sculpture and shows how they enfolded photographs into their creative processes.

Paintings, sculpture, and photographs by such artists as Bonnard, Brancusi, Degas, Gauguin, Khnopff, Moreau, Mucha, Munch, Picasso, Rodin, Rosso, Vallotton, von Stuck, and Vuillard are discussed and reproduced. The book also includes an array of photographs by great masters (Steichen, Nadar, Muybridge) and lesser-known figures.

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy Kosinski is the Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art.

From Library Journal:

Turn-of-the-century artists generally shunned the photographic medium, regarding it as a technical process inferior to the ideals of artistic creativity. In this companion catalog to an exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and traveling to San Francisco and Bilbao, curator Kosinski reveals that these artists nonetheless used photography as a tool and incorporated likenesses and Symbolist concepts from photographs into their works. Richly illustrated scholarly essays by Kosinski and other art historians examine the paintings and sculpture of 14 key artists, presenting evidence of how they employed photographs to retain a visual image; recorded works in progress or document a completed piece; stimulate inspiration; or communicated visual ideas. In this lovely volume, we learn of Steichen's artistic rapport with Rodin, Edward Degas's use of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies, Picasso's practice of pinning photos of masterpieces to his easel, Gauguin's scenic Tahitian photos, and much more. A fascinating study recommended for all academic and comprehensive fine arts collections.
-Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300081685
• ISBN 13: 9780300081688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336