Tissot is best known for his brilliant pictures of English and French society in the 1860's and 1870', depicting in minute detail the ravishing costumes, decorative interiors and riverside scenes of the period. More than any other Victorian painter Tissot's pictures mirror exactly the habits and preoccupations of his age. Here Christopher Woods's engagingly written and copiously illustrated book surveys Tissot's entire career, revealing the tensions and contradictions that often lay beneath the deceptively glossy surface of his pictures.
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James Tissot's paintings of pretty, elegant women may seem the epitome of Victorian aristocratic life. But as this lavish monograph points out, he mostly portrayed the newly rich middle classes, not the aristocracy, and his pictures reflected their insecurities as well as their need to be flattered. Dismissed today by most critics as superficial and trite, his paintings nevertheless enjoy considerable popularity both for their period charm and their detailed mirroring of a society. London art dealer Wood, author of three books on Victorian painting, offers a wide-angled view: the painter's youthful medieval craze and his late religious canvases triggered by the death of his mistress get their full due, even though the latter look hopelessly stagey. Tissot's love scenes are mysterious dramas pregnant with emotion, and his pictures of shopgirls and circus performers have the offhand quality of works by his friends Degas and Manet.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Christopher Wood is England's leading writer and broadcaster on Victorian art. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he spent fourteen years working at the London auction house, Christie's, becoming director of nineteenth-century paintings. He started his own gallery, specialising in Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art, in 1977, and now works privately in London.
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