James Tissot / edited by Krystyna Matyjaskiewicz

Oxford: Phaidon Press; Barbican Art Gallery, 1984. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 144 pages: ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm. Notes: Accompanies an exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery, London, 15 Nov. 1984-20 Jan. 1985; and traveling to Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1 Feb.-16 March 1985. Contents: The ambiguous art of Tissot / Sir Michael Levey -- James Tissot: cet �tre complexe / Michael Wentworth -- Comic and aesthetic: James Tissot in the context of British art and taste / Malcolm Warner -- Tissot: his London friends and visitors / Jane Abdy -- London years: the dissemination of the image / Harley Preston -- Costume in Tissot's pictures / Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz -- Tissot's cloisonn� enamels / Jessica Rutherford -- Tissot as a religious artist / Ian Thomson. Subjects: Tissot, James (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1902); Exhibitions. Tissot, James 1836-1902. Barbican Art Gallery (London, England); Exhibitions. Whitworth Art Gallery (University of Manchester, England); Exhibitions. Painters, French 19th century. Painting, French 19th century; Exhibitions. Genre: Biography. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated.