Debra N. Mancoff
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Debra N. Mancoff is the author of several books devoted to art and fashion, including Danger! Women Artists at Work, Fashion in Impressionist Paris, and Fashion Muse: The Inspiration Behind Iconic Design.
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Kehinde Wiley is an American artist best known for monumental portraits that place contemporary African Americans within the compositions and visual language of European Old Master paintings. He achieved particular prominence in 2018 when his official portrait of former U.S. President Barack Obama…
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Publications (4)
Monet's Garden in Art (May 2011)
This book focuses on Monet's garden at Giverny as seen through his paintings, offering a revealing insight into the artist and his work.
Monet's garden was a private haven where domestic pleasure, artistic vision and aesthetic delight converged. It became as powerful a passion in his life as painting - he chose his planting schemes as carefully as he chose colours for his palette. It was also the inspiration for his art, and the subject of some of his greatest paintings.
Exploring his...
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Monet's garden was a private haven where domestic pleasure, artistic vision and aesthetic delight converged. It became as powerful a passion in his life as painting - he chose his planting schemes as carefully as he chose colours for his palette. It was also the inspiration for his art, and the subject of some of his greatest paintings.
Exploring his...
The Garden in Art (2011)
Rich in symbolism and metaphor, and blessed with its own varied and dramatic palette, the garden has proved to be an extremely fertile source of artistic inspiration. In The Garden in Art, acclaimed art historian Debra N. Mancoff reveals the many different ways in which artists from all periods of history - from ancient Egypt to the present day - have employed the motif of the garden. Featuring more than 200 illustrations of both renowned and lesser-known works, the book approaches its subject thematically,...
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Objects of Desire Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2005)
In this special issue of Museum Studies, a team of curators and scholars surveys a wide range of the Art Institute's Victorian-era objects, capturing the period's fascinating mix of historical revivalism and stylistic innovation and illuminating a historical moment in which artworks fulfilled the varied desires of a wider range of consumers than ever before. Both general readers and more specialized audiences will enjoy the issue's mix of short essays and a fully illustrated catalogue section, which...
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John Everett Millais Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2001)
The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading figure in the Royal Academy. But this dismissal of Millais’s post-Raphaelite work overlooks more than forty years of artistic endeavor and distinction. In this book, nine scholars reexamine Millais’s entire career from a variety of perspectives,...
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