Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children by Gallati, Barbara Dayer - 2004

Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum in Association with Bulfinch Press, 2004. Softbound. VG+ (faint sunning to back spine edge; fine score to back wrap edge; light rubbing to corners). Color illustrated wraps. 255 pp., 83 color plates and 95 text figures in bw. Sargent's reputation is often defined by his achievements as a painter of sophisticated society portraits. However, as this examination of his career reveals, he created a significant number of portraits of children and genre paintings featuring children. The title of this book makes ironic reference to Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations," and is used here to suggest how Sargent's paintings of children related to the expectations associated with representations of childhood in art and literature. How Sargent ultimately advanced childhood as an artistic subject is discussed in this volume. There are essays by curators and professors of fine arts, and color illustrations of Sargent's often lesser-known paintings of children. Included are… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Bulfinch, 2004-10-08. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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