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The Repeating image : multiples in French painting from David to Matisse

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The Repeating image : multiples in French painting from David to Matisse

"Today, repetitive imagery dominates all forms of visual experience, from the realm of advertising to the spaces of contemporary art. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition - often considered merely incidental to the age of mechanical reproduction - was a pervasive attribute of early modern painting long before its embrace by twentieth-century high modernism." "In works by David, Ingres, Delaroche, Gerome, Corot, Millet, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Matisse, the reader can compare closely related versions of some of the most familiar imagery of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors demonstrate that by making multiples of closely related subject matter in their paintings and in other media, these artists challenged an aesthetic based on the notion of an inimitable, unique masterpiece." "Through beautiful illustrations and essays by leading scholars, this book shows how repetition in early modern painting took on a complex, multivalent significance and that the traditional medium of painting remained undiminished despite the nineteenth-century invention of photography and film."--BOOK JACKET.

Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its embrace by twentieth-century high modernism.In works by Ingres, Delaroche, Gerome, Corot, Millet, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Matisse, the reader can compare closely-related versions of some of the most familiar imagery of the 19th and early 20th centuries. By making multiples of closely related subject matter in their paintings, the authors argue, these painters challenged an aesthetic based on the notion of an inimitable, unique masterpiece.Through beautiful illustrations and essays by leading scholars, this book ultimately shows how the nineteenth-century invention of photography and film - with their intrinsic attribute of repetition - did not diminish the traditional medium of painting but rather propelled it in new directions.

Baltimore

Walters Art Museum

Distributed by Yale University Press

2007

200 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 26 cm.

Catalog of an exhibition entitled "Deja Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces," at the Walters Art Museum, Oct. 7, 2007-Jan. 1, 2008 and at the Phoenix Museum of Art, Jan. 20-May 4, 2008.

Includes index.

ISBN: 9780300126693

edited by Eik Kahng ; with contributions by Stephen Bann ... ]et al.[.

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Repetition as symbolic form / Eik Kahng -- Reassessing repetition in nineteenth-century academic painting : Delaroche, Ge ro me, Ingres / Stephen Bann -- Strategies of repetition : Millet/Corot / Simon Kelly -- The predications and implications of Monet's series / Charles Stuckey -- Risible Cezanne / Richard Shiff -- The Matisse grid / Jeffrey Weiss.

، Painting, French--91th century--Exhibitions.

، Painting, French--02th century--Exhibitions.

، Repetition )Aesthetics(--Exhibitions.

TI

AU Kahng, Eik 1963-

AU Bann, Stephen

CO Walters Art Museum )Baltimore, Md.(

CO Phoenix Museum of Art.