Catherine H Lusheck

Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the roles that Senecan eclecticism and a classicizing approach to emulation played in Rubens's joining of form to matter in his formative drawings practice, and arguably in his early ambitions to strengthen art for a new and troubled age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781472477125
• ISBN-10: 147247712X
• Artikelnr.: 48013244

Autorenporträt

Catherine Lusheck (PhD, UC Berkeley), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include Rubens drawings, and early modern humanism, style, and visual rhetoric. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000), and a forthcoming essay, "Leonardo's Brambles and their Afterlife in Rubens's Studies of Nature."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Rubens's Early Drawings and the Problem of Eclecticism
PART I: DRAWING IN CONTEXT
Chapter 1 - Setting the Stage: Privileging Eloquent Disegno in Rubens's
Early Drawings
Chapter 2 - Style and Eloquence in Rubens's Milieu
PART II: CASE STUDIES IN GRAPHIC ELOQUENCE
Chapter 3 - The Getty Medea and Rubens's Making of a Modern Senecan Grande
Âme
Chapter 4 - Figuring Eloquence: The Kneeling Man and Rubens's Construction
of the Robust Male Nude
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index