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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393079031
ISBN-13
9780393079036
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234434214
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sargent's Women : Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Women, Individual Artists / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / 19th Century, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
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0.1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2017-013987
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[Lucey's] narrative is engaging and elegant, set in a rich cultural and social framework that insightfully reflects the era., Like characters from the writings of Edith Wharton, [the women in this book] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking--particularly when immortalized by John Singer Sargent. . . . Lucey's prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing. Her character sketches are colorful and she is not, thank goodness, above conveying some wonderfully catty gossip., [Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn't spell out. . . . Sargent's Women is a good read . . . [and its] chatty pleasures are considerable., [A] lyrical meditation on life, love, and art in the Gilded Age. . . . Sargent's Women abounds with dazzling characters in atmospheric settings. . . . As rich as [Sargent's] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still., Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance, energy, and potency--Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous., With psychological savvy and a raconteur's wit, Donna Lucey brings four Gilded Age women to vivid life along with the master who painted them. Lucey morphs these women from privileged, enigmatic portrait subjects into the sympathetic heroines of their own full stories. I was enthralled., In Donna M. Lucey's deft hands four John Singer Sargent portraits become portals to the Gilded Age. By delving into the lives of the heiresses he painted she brings us into their scintillating world. We watch as they travel the globe, twirl through ballrooms, make good or not-so-good marriages, embark on affairs--and pursue new careers in a time of changing roles for women., Filled with vivid scenes worthy of a novel by Henry James, yet grounded in comprehensive research, Donna Lucey's Sargent's Women is a delicious elucidation of character, class, and culture--a welcome addition to that slim but select shelf of volumes devoted to bringing John Singer Sargent and his subjects back to life., In Donna Lucey's deft hands, four John Singer Sargent portraits become portals to the Gilded Age. By delving into the lives of the heiresses, we watch as they travel the globe, twirl through ballrooms, make good or not-so-good marriages, embark on affairs--and pursue new careers in a time of changing roles for women., In Sargent's Women . . . Lucey does . . . what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence., For as long as I can remember, I have stared into the eyes of the subjects in John Singer Sargent's paintings--often beautiful, young, seemingly unknowable women--and wondered who they were and what their lives had held. With her powerful and probing new book, Sargent's Women, Donna Lucey has answered that haunting question, and the truth behind the paintings is far more stunning and fascinating than I had ever imagined., Sargent's Women has . . . a good deal to say about life among affluent women with brains and talents beyond the Victorian strictures of their time. . . . Lucey wisely concentrates her attention on these women who epitomized their class and times., Endlessly intriguing. . . . Lucey ably pulls these four compelling women out of obscurity with insight and infectious enthusiasm., Donna Lucey upends our assumption that elite women of the Gilded Age were confined to a limited domestic sphere. The four women she profiles were rule-breakers and worldly sophisticates who powered through extreme challenges imposed by family, social norms, and illness. Each was painted by Sargent, but Lucey's narrative portraits upstage even his brilliant renderings, revealing four not-to-be-denied women of strength and determination., Choosing four striking Sargent portraits of wealthy, cosmopolitan American women, Lucey vividly reveals the hidden truths of their tumultuous lives, while also succinctly telling the artist's own intriguing story. . . . Lucey's superlative group portrait, rendered in crystal-clear prose, is spring-fed by . . . her keen insights into what drove these women to break out of their gilded cages., In Sargent's Women . . . [Lucey] does . . . what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence., Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency--Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous.
Dewey Decimal
920.72
Synopsis
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer traveled between her father's Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval English manor house where her mother took refuge, surrounded by artists, writers, and actors. Elsie hid labyrinthine passions, including her love for a man who would betray her. As the veiled Sally Fairchild--beautiful and commanding--emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister, Lucia, into a Bohemian life. The saintly Elizabeth Chanler embarked on a surreptitious love affair with her best friend's husband. And the iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner scandalized Boston society and became Sargent's greatest patron and friend. Like characters in an Edith Wharton novel, these women challenged society's restrictions, risking public shame and ostracism. All had forbidden love affairs; Lucia bravely supported her family despite illness, while Elsie explored Spiritualism, defying her overbearing father. Finally, the headstrong Isabella outmaneuvered the richest plutocrats on the planet to create her own magnificent art museum. These compelling stories of female courage connect our past with our present--and remind us that while women live differently now, they still face obstacles to attaining full equality., The fascinating backstories of four women painted by John Singer Sargent come alive in this seductive, multilayered biography. With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote Rocky Mountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild--beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued--emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Lucia into an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvases defined the era. 8 pages of color illustrations, "Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency--Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." --Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery29
LC Classification Number
CT3260.L83 2017
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