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A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and
economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of
the art historical canon Painting by Numbers presents a
groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific
methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of
nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative
evidence for more than five hundred thousand works of art, Diana
Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the nineteenth
century, and the extent to which art historians have focused on a
limited-and potentially biased-sample of artwork from that time.
She addresses long-standing questions about the effects of
industrialization, gender, and empire on the art world, and she
models more expansive approaches for studying art history in the
age of the digital humanities. Examining art in France, the United
States, and the United Kingdom, Greenwald features datasets created
from indices and exhibition catalogs that-to date-have been used
primarily as finding aids. From this body of information, she
reveals the importance of access to the countryside for painters
showing images of nature at the Paris Salon, the ways in which
time-consuming domestic responsibilities pushed women artists in
the United States to work in lower-prestige genres, and how images
of empire were largely absent from the walls of London's Royal
Academy at the height of British imperial power. Ultimately,
Greenwald considers how many works may have been excluded from art
historical inquiry and shows how data can help reintegrate them
into the history of art, even after such pieces have disappeared or
faded into obscurity. Upending traditional perspectives on the art
historical canon, Painting by Numbers offers an innovative look at
the nineteenth-century art world and its legacy.
A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist
Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924)
assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures
and eras—and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share
these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work
remains shrouded in myth. Separating fiction and fact, this book
paints an unforgettable portrait of Gardner, drawing on her
substantial personal archive and including previously unpublished
findings to offer new perspectives on her life and her construction
of identity. Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald shed new
light on Gardner's connections to minority communities in Boston,
her views on suffrage and other issues of the day, the sources of
her and her husband’s wealth, and her ties to politicians,
writers, and artists. What emerges is a multifaceted portrait of a
trailblazing collector and patron of the arts—from Italian
Renaissance paintings to Chinese antiquities—who built a museum
unprecedented in its curatorial vision. Beautifully illustrated,
this book challenges any portrayal of Gardner as a straightforward
feminist hero, revealing instead an exceptional, complex woman who
created a legendary museum and played a vibrant and influential
role in the art world. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a force to be reckoned with. She
routinely went toe-to-toe with major museums and titans of industry
to purchase masterpieces, created a museum unlike any other, and
was famous for consistently flouting the social conventions that
governed women of her time. However, this book shows another side
of Isabella that readers may not expect: her love of dogs. Richly
illustrated with images from the collection and museum archives,
this volume allows readers to meet Isabella's favorite dogs (Kitty
Wink and Patty Boy), see the litters of puppies she bred, and
discover how her dogs were a comfort toward the end of her life.
Usually stern in photographs, Isabella - like many people - could
not help grinning when posing for photos with puppies. This
enthusiasm for dogs is also evident in her correspondence. As she
wrote excitedly to her art advisor Bernard Berenson: "Part of my
morning's work has been to try to induce two 9 days old fox terrier
pups to open their eyes again. They did once; and then clapped them
to, with a vim that seemed to say that the box they found
themselves in was not the ideal they had come to this world to
see!" Even the dogs of celebrities - both celebrities she knew
personally, and others she admired from afar - drew her attention.
This book also features some of the many photographs she collected
of notable people and their dogs, like the painter Anders Zorn and
his adorable pup Mouche and Caesar, the regal and loyal terrier who
belonged to King Edward VII and even marched in the monarch's
funeral parade. From gathering Renaissance masterpieces to raising
Fox Terriers, this book shows that Isabella approached all her
tasks with enthusiasm and dedication. By learning about her love of
her canine companions, this book presents a more human side of
Isabella than typically on display.
A revealing and beautifully illustrated critical edition of
Gardner's collaged travel albums In 1865, art collector and
philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) lost her only
child to pneumonia at less than two years old. In an effort to
rouse her from depression, Gardner and her husband, Jack, travelled
to northern Europe and Russia. It was the first of many trips
abroad that would eventually take her from the Middle East to
Asia-trips that she documented in exquisitely crafted collaged
travel albums. Fellow Wanderer brings together nearly thirty of
Gardner's striking travelogues, spanning some thirty-nine countries
and offering invaluable perspective on the global influences on
this legendary collector and patron of the arts. This book features
beautiful facsimiles of Gardner's travel albums-largely unpublished
until now-along with essays by leading scholars who place these
diaries and sketchbooks within the context of the art and culture
of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the nineteenth century. The
essays explore a host of topics, such as Gardner's engagement with
world religions while abroad, how she incorporated designs and
ideas from around the globe into her Boston museum, and the ways in
which the imperial power structures of the era facilitated her
travels. Lushly illustrated, Fellow Wanderer provides a uniquely
intimate look at how Gardner's rich and diverse experiences abroad
instilled her collecting and patronage with a truly global vision
of art. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Exhibition Schedule Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
February 16-May 21, 2023
A richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of
renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an
artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful
political messages. A leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in
the 1970s, she works with found objects-many of which she gathers
on her extensive travels-to explore themes like symbolic mysticism,
feminism, racism, and Eurocentric chauvinism. Betye Saar: Heart of
a Wanderer sheds new light on Saar's unique creative process, her
trips around the world, and the diverse ways in which her artworks
engage with global histories of travel and forced migration. It
presents how the artist's work conjures the transporting experience
of a voyage to a faraway place. This beautifully illustrated book
draws on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions
who accompanied the artist in her travels across four continents
over several decades. Essays by leading scholars contextualize
Saar's journeys within her broader life and career, as well as how
her practice fits into broader traditions-such as scrapbooking-in
African American visual culture. In addition to providing this
context, this book explores how Saar's assemblage practice both
echoes and provides a critical counterpoint to the collecting
practices of Gilded Age American art collectors like Isabella
Stewart Gardner. Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished
material-including almost thirty travel sketchbooks and two dozen
finished assemblages-Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer provides a
fresh look at a groundbreaking American artist while offering a
timely social history of the impact of travel on the African
American experience. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum Exhibition Schedule Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
February 16-May 21, 2023
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