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While visiting the Gardners in Boston in February 1894, the Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860 - 1920) made an etching of Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, which neither of them considered to be a complete success. Later that year Zorn and his wife visited the Gardners in Venice. One evening, Mrs. Gardner stepped out into the balcony to see what was happening outside, and as she came back into the drawing-room, pushing the French windows open, Zorn exclaimed (according to Morris Carter): "Stay just as you are! That is the way I want to paint you." Isabella Stewart Gardner patronized Zorn and promoted his art in the United States. Her support and friendship proved to be crucial to the artist's success in America. Considered to be the most important work by Zorn in the United States, the portrait of Isabella Gardner will form the centrepiece of the exhibition, Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, this publication will be a valuable resource for art historians as well as the general public, with little scholarship previously published in English about Zorn. The catalogue features fifty of Zorn's works, such as Omnibus I, for which Zorn won a prize at the 1892 Salon in Paris, and Ice Skater (1898), which has never before left Sweden, combining for the first time major pieces from American collections with those of Europe - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Zornmuseet, Mora; and Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenberg, among others.

"DELIGHTFUL." This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of Anders Zorn: a European Artist Seduces America free epub the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power.

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Author: Oliver Tostmann
Number of Pages: 176 pages
Published Date: 28 Feb 2013
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781907372445
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