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| | BOOK FORMAT Clth, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2009 Active DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 174 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780878467426 TRADE List Price: $29.95 CDN $39.95 GBP £27.00 AVAILABILITY In stock | | BROWSE THE 2021 SPRING CATALOG  Preview our SPRING 2021 catalog, featuring more than 400 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. |
|   |   | Sargent's DaughtersBiography of a PaintingBy Erica E. Hirshler.
One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and depths of the square canvas, as though unrelated to one another, unsettled and unsettling to the eye. "The Daughters" both affirms and defies convention, flouting the boundaries between portrait and genre scene, formal composition and quick sketch or snapshot. Unveiled at the Paris Salon of 1883, it predated by just two years the scandal of "Madame X" and was itself characterized by one critic as "four corners and a void"; but Henry James came closer to the mark when he described the painter as a "knock-down insolence of talent," for few of Sargent's works embody the epithet as well as "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." Drawing on numerous unpublished archival documents, scholar Erica E. Hirshler excavates all facets of this iconic canvas, discussing not only its significance as a work of art but also the figures and events involved in its making, its importance for Sargent's career, its place in the tradition of artistic patronage and the myriad factors that have contributed to its lasting popularity and relevance. The result is an aesthetic, philosophical and personal tour de force that will change the way you look at Sargent's work, and that both illuminates an iconic painting and reaffirms its pungent magnetism.
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| | FROM THE BOOK"Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. Hirshler, a senior curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, explores in intriguing detail in her new book, Sargent's Daughters. 'From this singular picture,' she explains, 'a novel unfolds.' And her 'biography' of this painting — written after she documented the Boit sisters' lives and researched every significant detail in the painting, from the 'molded composition' baby doll (named Popau after a right-wing French politician) to the floor plan of the apartment to the 'colossal' vases 'made specifically for the West according to Japanese ideas about what Europeans liked' — is that thoroughly absorbing novel." --Megan Marshall, The New York Times Sunday Book Review | | OF RELATED INTEREST |  TURNER PALERMO/FUNDACION COLECCION THYSSEN-BORNEMISZAISBN: 9788475067650 USD $60.00 | CAN $70Pub Date: 3/1/2007 Out of print | Not available
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| |  | By Erica E. Hirshler.MFA PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTONISBN: 9780878468607 USD $17.95 | CAN $24.95Pub Date: 3/19/2019 Active | In stock
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|  | By Erica E. Hirshler.MFA PUBLICATIONSISBN: 9780878467426 USD $29.95 | CAN $39.95 UK £ 27Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active | In stock
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| Sargent's Daughters Biography of a Painting Published by MFA Publications. By Erica E. Hirshler. | One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and depths of the square canvas, as though unrelated to one another, unsettled and unsettling to the eye. "The Daughters" both affirms and defies convention, flouting the boundaries between portrait and genre scene, formal composition and quick sketch or snapshot. Unveiled at the Paris Salon of 1883, it predated by just two years the scandal of "Madame X" and was itself characterized by one critic as "four corners and a void"; but Henry James came closer to the mark when he described the painter as a "knock-down insolence of talent," for few of Sargent's works embody the epithet as well as "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." Drawing on numerous unpublished archival documents, scholar Erica E. Hirshler excavates all facets of this iconic canvas, discussing not only its significance as a work of art but also the figures and events involved in its making, its importance for Sargent's career, its place in the tradition of artistic patronage and the myriad factors that have contributed to its lasting popularity and relevance. The result is an aesthetic, philosophical and personal tour de force that will change the way you look at Sargent's work, and that both illuminates an iconic painting and reaffirms its pungent magnetism.
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