9780896591813-0896591816-Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints

Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints

ISBN-13: 9780896591813
ISBN-10: 0896591816
Edition: First Edition
Author: Frank Getlein
Publication date: 1980
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover 156 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780896591813
ISBN-10: 0896591816
Edition: First Edition
Author: Frank Getlein
Publication date: 1980
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover 156 pages

Summary

Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints (ISBN-13: 9780896591813 and ISBN-10: 0896591816), written by authors Frank Getlein, was published by Abbeville Press in 1980. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists (Arts History & Criticism, Techniques, Graphic Design) books. You can easily purchase or rent Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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[From front jacket flap] Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as among the finest examples of American Impressionist art - a vivid and touching record of middle-class life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Now, seventy-tow of Cassatt's most important paintings and graphics are meticulously reproduced here in full color - the first time that so many of her works have been made available at a popular prince. Introduced to painting in the art schools of Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt soon left for Paris - a bold and shocking move for a young woman in Victorian America - where she became acquainted with the leading, rebellious French Impressionists. Degas became her friend and mentor, and eventually one of her greatest admirers. She exhibited widely with the Impressionists in Europe, encouraged them (and was encouraged by them), and was instrumental in bringing the first Impressionist paintings to America. Her own luminous, delicate, and graceful works, chiefly interiors with women, children, or both, have often been compared to Raphael's for the beauty and dignity with which she captured the eternal theme of mother and child.In his text, the noted art critic and historian Frank Getlein (author of some twenty books, among the Bit of the Print and World's Great Paintings - H. W. Janson) relates the intimate details of Mary Cassatt's life to her paintings and tells of her relationships with fellow artists, while clearly defining her place in modern art.

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