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Title:
Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children
ISBN: 9780872731493
Book #: 015964
Author: Gallati, Barbara Dayer
Illustrator:
Publisher: Brooklyn Museum in Association with Bulfinch Press
Place: Brooklyn, NY
Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Book Cond.: Near Fine Condition
Jacket Cond.: Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 11 3/8″ x 9 3/4″
Book Type: n/a
Signed:
Description / Comments:
Size: 11 3/8″ x 9 3/4″. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped brown cloth over boards, 253 pages, extensively illustrated. “The title of the book makes ironic reference to Charles Dickens’s famous novel Great Expectations and signals that Sargent’s paintings of children are interpreted here in light of the expectations associated with childhood as it was represented in the art and literature of the late nineteenth century — a period then acknowledged as the advent of the ‘Century of the Child.’ The investigation traces how Sargent reacted to the contemporary shift in childhood’s meaning and used child imagery to advance his professional standing with the public and critics.” In an illustrated dust jacket that is lightly stained, bumped at corners and spine ends. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 12 oz. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0872731499. ISBN/EAN: 9780872731493. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015964.