The Société Des Trois in the Nineteenth Century: The Translocal Artistic Union of Whistler, Fantin-Latour, and Legros

ISBN-13: 9781032339313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 172 str.

Melissa Berry

Opis

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. This book will serve as a comprehensive resource on the development, production, implications, and eventual end of the Société.

Spis treści

Introduction 

1. The Importance of Unity: Parisian Students in the Early Second Empire 

2. United: The Formation of the Société 

3. A Cross-Channel Union: Beyond Paris, Beyond Students 

4. Unity in Action: 1863 and the Salon des Refusés 

5. Unity on Canvas: Pivotal Portraits of the Société 

6. The Union Undone: An Inevitable End 

Epilogue

O autorze

Melissa Berry is an instructor in art history at the University of Victoria, Canada.