Renoir

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The Body, The Senses

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Renoir offers a revelatory exploration of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's exceptional depictions of the nude, tracing his artistic journey from Impressionist beginnings to later, controversial works. The volume examines how Renoir engaged with classical traditions and responded to artists such as Courbet, Manet, Degas, and Cézanne, highlighting the evolving portrayal of the female nude. Featuring approximately 50 works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures, this study also incorporates a modern feminist critique of the male gaze and includes an interview with contemporary painter Lisa Yuskavage on Renoir's lasting influence.
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This book is ideal for art enthusiasts, students, and scholars interested in Impressionism, classical art traditions, feminist art criticism, and the evolution of the nude in Western art.

"Published by the Clark Art Institute on the occasion of the exhibition Renoir: The Body, The Senses, presented at the Clark Art Institute from June 8 to September 22, 2019, and at the Kimbell Art Museum from October 27, 2019, to January 26, 2020"--Colophon.

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Renoir is a revelatory and wide-ranging exploration of Renoir’s extraordinary depictions of the nude and their important artistic legacy.

Best known as part of the influential vanguard of Impressionist artists that experimented with new painting techniques in the late 19th century, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was deeply inspired by classical traditions and returned again and again to the canonical subject of the nude.

Tracing the entire arc of Renoir’s career, this volume examines the different approaches the artist employed in his various depictions of the subject—from his works that respond to Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne, to his late, and still controversial, depictions of bathers that inspired the next generation of artists. Eminent scholars not only look at the different ways that Renoir used the nude as a means of personal expression but also analyse Renoir’s art in terms of a modern feminist critique of the male gaze.

Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir’s nudes, this beautifully illustrated study includes approximately 50 works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures. The book also features an interview with the contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage that considers Renoir’s continuing influence and the historical significance of the female nude in art.

Distributed for the Clark Art Institute.

Exhibition Schedule:

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
(06/08/19–09/22/19)

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
(10/27/19–01/26/20)

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"[An] intelligent, always lucid catalogue" — David Carrier, Hyperallergic

"[A] gorgeous catalogue" — Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker

"Tactility is one of the senses referred to in the show’s title, and capably defended in the catalog" — Roberta Smith, New York Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300243314

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 August 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 110 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

Edited by George T. M. Shackelford
Edited by Esther Bell
Contributions by Colin B. Bailey
Contributions by Martha Lucy
Contributions by Nicole R Myers
Contributions by Lisa Yuskavage
Contributions by Alison de Lima Greene
Edited by Esther Bell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 273.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 264

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Esther Bell is Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. George T. M. Shackelford is deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.