Archives of American Art, Artists & Models: An Exhibition of Photographs, Letters, and Other Documents from the Collections of the Archives of American Art, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1975 Bignamini, ...
Author: Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135959210
Category: Reference
Page: 624
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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.' This is how Frances Borzello's unusual and revisionist book begins. Myth and reality are far apart. It is quite wrong to suppose models were always women, always naked and always promiscuous.
Author: Frances Borzello
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571269826
Category: Artists and models in art
Page: 196
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'To admit to writing about artists' models is to set off an avalanche of interest. ''Didn't Rossetti marry his model?'' ''didn't Augustus John sleep with all of his?'' At first I brushed such questions aside as frivolous. Instead of revealing the facts about modelling in England from the foundation of the Royal Academy to the present day, the gossip column approach to art history seemed to veil them. But as research revealed the mundane business of a model's life, I had second thoughts about my high-minded approach. I became fascinate by the way that contrary to the facts that were emerging, the majority of model anecdotes shared a common obsession - sex - and a common assumption - that models are female. I started to wonder to wonder how posing for artists, a tiring, tedious and lowly-paid profession practised by both sexes and all ages, could have become so fascinating to the public mind and also so distorted.' This is how Frances Borzello's unusual and revisionist book begins. Myth and reality are far apart. It is quite wrong to suppose models were always women, always naked and always promiscuous. Male models were just as much in demand for painters of History, Mythology and Genre, in which both sexes might require to be clothed in some particular manner. There are ten chapters: Fact and Fantasy, The Rise and Fall of the Professional Model, The Heyday of the Professional Model, The Model's Status, Bohemia, The Stereotype, High and Low Writing, The Propagation of Myth, The Model in Fiction, The Model in Art: and in them the author, with great originality, covers all aspects of this much misunderstood activity. 'The first chapter of Frances Borzello's book, The Artist's Model, is entitled Fact and Fantasy. The facts are dull. Modelling is a boring, tiring, badly paid profession. Yet out of them we have created an image of a woman dressed only for seduction who probably sleeps with the artist, cooks for him, and inspires his best work. Rossetti has his beloved Lizzie Siddall, Whistler had his Maud, Augustus John . . . well Augustus had whoever he could, wnenever he could.' Waldemar Januszczak, GuardianArt Models Speak about Nudity, Sexuality, and the Creative Process Sarah R. Phillips ... France Borel describes the respective roles of models and artists in the following terms: “[T]he woman lounges and lingers, the artist conquers, ...
Author: Sarah R. Phillips
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791481004
Category: Social Science
Page: 168
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A fascinating consideration of the work of life models and the models’ own perspectives on their craft.In 19th-century Europe, models were increasingly associated with prostitutes for several reasons: the ... The latter were sought by artists at“model markets,” squares where male and female models congregated and waited for work.
Author: Melissa Hope Ditmore
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313329685
Category: Prostitution
Page: 848
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This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival.It takes as its starting point the artist-model transaction: demonstrating that stereotypes of 'the model' that figured in the public imagination were framed both by gender and ethnicity, the book develops a nuanced typology of different ...
Author: Susan Waller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351543392
Category: Art
Page: 321
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Although mastery of the representation of the human figure was central to art making as early as the fifteenth century in Europe, in the nineteenth-century French imagination the artist's model became identified as a distinct social type and cultural trope. This study of the artist's model in Paris between 1830 and 1870 incorporates three histories: a social history of professional models, a cultural history of models as social types, and an art history of representations of the model in elite and popular visual culture. It takes as its starting point the artist-model transaction: demonstrating that stereotypes of 'the model' that figured in the public imagination were framed both by gender and ethnicity, the book develops a nuanced typology of different types of models. Interwoven with the analysis of the constructed identities of models are accounts of the lives of particular models and the histories of the urban population groups from which they emerged. The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 is an adept exploration of a major issue in nineteenth-century art which will be of interest not only to art historians, but also to social and French cultural historians.The book offers a series of lively takes on the phenomenon of the artist's model. It will make fascinating reading for those interested in modern art and the wider aspects of British culture and society.
Author: Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 071906662X
Category: Art
Page: 208
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Over the last twenty years there have been flurries of interest in the artist's model, and recent exhibitions have stimulated new activity in this area. Model and Supermodel extends the discussion about the social and cultural significance of the model in British art and culture. A fascinating collection of essays and interviews, it examines the persistent mythology of the artist's model and some of the ambiguities involved in depicting the body. The book offers a series of lively takes on the phenomenon of the artist's model. It will make fascinating reading for those interested in modern art and the wider aspects of British culture and society.ARTISTS ' MODELS . The women who pose , draped or nude , for painters and sculptors— The ethics of an unconventional calling that is necessary to the technique of art . By George Holme . TH ures HERE is in every artist's studio a of ...
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ARTISTS MODELS . The women who pose , draped or nude , for painters and sculptors — The ethics of an unconventional calling that is necessary to the technique of art . By George Holme . ( 6 . ) TI ' HERE is in every artist's studio a of ...
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The opportunities of posing afforded to the official models in the classes of the Academy and the League , are so few in comparison with the number of models clamoring for employment that the artists in charge of the matter are obliged ...
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ISBN: OXFORD:555032316
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It is unfortunate for Hartford that the original of this masterpiece should be owned in Philadelphia , and only a a laborer's copy of the artist's model possessed in the Bartholomew Collection . However , many thanks are due to the ...
Author: Harry Willard French
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ISBN: WISC:89056198443
Category: Art
Page: 240
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