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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Fashioned by Sargent

Fashioned by Sargent

Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline
Finch, James
Hirshler, Erica E.

Hardcover

General ArtIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $65.00

ISBN10: 0878468943
ISBN13: 9780878468942
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 3.22
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.70
Language: English

A lavish exploration of Sargent's relationship to fashion, featuring exquisite costumes from the Gilded Age

The coat is the picture, John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever more tightly around his sitter's slender figure. More attentive to what he hoped to accomplish as a painter than he was to the dictates of contemporary fashion, Sargent often chose what his sitters would wear. Even when they came to him dressed in the latest mode, he frequently ignored or simplified the details, concentrating on texture, drape and the way fabrics responded to light. Exploiting dress as an integral ingredient of his own artistry, Sargent used clothes to proclaim his own aesthetic agenda while simultaneously establishing his sitters' social position, profession, gender identity and nationality.

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