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Author: Richard R. Brettell
Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
Imprint: Getty Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.10cm
Weight: 0.360kg
ISBN: 9781606066065
ISBN 10: 1606066064
Pages: 103
Publication Date: 11 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. --Alexander Adams Art An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a cliched phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing. --Hyperallergic
""Brettell's skill at leading the viewer through formal as well as art historical details of certain paintings can be eye-opening to both novice students of art appreciation as well as art historians and curators, leading them to a lifetime of aesthetic pleasure."" -- Caroline Boyle-Turner ""H-France""; ""An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a cliched phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing."" -- ""Hyperallergic""; ""On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period."" -- ""Alexander Adams Art""
Brettell's skill at leading the viewer through formal as well as art historical details of certain paintings can be eye-opening to both novice students of art appreciation as well as art historians and curators, leading them to a lifetime of aesthetic pleasure. --Caroline Boyle-Turner H-France An extraordinarily ambitious . . . commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a cliched phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing. -- Hyperallergic On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. -- Alexander Adams Art
On Modern Beauty is a well-illustrated and thought-provoking book about different aspects of beauty in French painting of the period. --Alexander Adams Art
Author Information
Richard R. Brettell, the founding director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and the Margaret McDermott Chair of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, passed away in 2020.
