Renoir: The Body, The Senses - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300243316 ISBN 13: 9780300243314

Publisher: Clark Art Institute, 2019

Synopsis

A revelatory and wide-ranging exploration of Renoir’s extraordinary depictions of the nude and their important artistic legacy

Best known as part of the influential vanguard of Impressionist artists that experimented with new painting techniques in the late 19th century, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was deeply inspired by classical traditions and returned again and again to the canonical subject of the nude. Tracing the entire arc of Renoir’s career, this volume examines the different approaches the artist employed in his various depictions of the subject—from his works that respond to Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne, to his late, and still controversial, depictions of bathers that inspired the next generation of artists. Eminent scholars not only look at the different ways that Renoir used the nude as a means of personal expression but also analyze Renoir’s art in terms of a modern feminist critique of the male gaze.
 
Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir’s nudes, this beautifully illustrated study includes approximately 50 works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures. The book also features an interview with the contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage that considers Renoir’s continuing influence and the historical significance of the female nude in art.

About this title

Book Description:

This beautifully illustrated volume offers an unprecedented and revelatory examination of Renoir’s depictions of the nude and the significance of the subject within the artist’s oeuvre.

About the Author:

Esther Bell is Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. George T. M. Shackelford is deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clark Art Institute
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0300243316
• ISBN 13: 9780300243314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Bell Esther, Shackelford George T. M.