Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fashioned by Sargent explores the complicated relationship of painting and dress through lavish reproductions of major portraits and other works by Sargent, alongside exquisite costumes of the period - including garments actually worn by his sitters. Essays by leading scholars illuminate topics such as portraits and performance, gender expression, the New Woman, and the pull of history and the excitement of new ideas, offering readers new insights...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Strong Women in Renaissance Italy explores women's live from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries by drawing on a wide range of artworks: paintings, prints, and sculptures, as well as velvet panels, illustrated books, embroideries, woven narrative images, and even a box decorated with cut straw that emulates gold. By asking new questions and reflecting on new approaches to the study of the Italian Renaissance, this book and the exhibition...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Taking a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), this major exhibition explores in detail his impact on other artists, both during his lifetime and beyond. Throughout a career of more than 70 years, Hokusai experimented with a wide range of styles and subjects, producing landscapes such as the instantly recognizable Great Wave and Red Fuji (both about 1830-31), nature studies known as: bird-and-flower pictures,...
Author
Publisher
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular--painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico's rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché,...
