The Society Portrait: Painting, Prestige & The Pursuit Of Elegance
de Badea-Paun, Gabriel (Richard Ormond intro)
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Thames & Hudson, London & New York 2007. 33.0 x 24.0cms, 240pp, 35 b/w & 182 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (narrow sunned panel on fron wrapper) The chapters are: portrait, between reality & the ideal, truth & beauty: renaissance of a genre; splendours of the Second Empire; realism versus impressionism; the Belle Epoque, portraiture at its zenith; decline of a genre.
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Published simultaneously in New York by Vendome Press under title: The society portrait: from David to Warhol. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
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- The Society Portrait: Painting, Prestige & The Pursuit Of Elegance
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- Badea-Paun, Gabriel (Richard Ormond intro)
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- Thames & Hudson, London & New York 2007
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- women celebrity aristocracy
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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