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 enlarge | Author: John Esten
Creator: Donna Hassler
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 279285
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 80
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0789302616
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9780789302618
ASIN: 0789302616
Publication Date: April 15, 1999
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 John singer Sargent: The Male nudes October 28, 2001
Peggy Joan Winters (Parkville, Md USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
For anyone who is a figurative painter, this book is a must have. John Singer Sargent is the Father of watercolor but we rarely see his nudes in books or in museum exhibitions. The color plates are breathtaking and serve as an inspiration to all professional artists. This is a small book but in my opinion well worth the money.
Long Hidden from the Public July 25, 2001
Joseph J. Hanssen (Upstate New York)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful book that I truly enjoyed. Not being a critic, but just a lover of fine art, I found this long hidden selection of John Singer Sargent's male nudes fascinating, and beautiful produced. There are drawings in black white and many in color in this fine selection. This book was published on the occasion of Sargent's major retrospect that traveled to several major galleries in 1999.pSargent began some of these drawings in his adolescence, and continued drawing male nudes throughout his career. However, they were never exhibited or seen by many other people until now. Some of the models became enduring friends with the artist, and remained by his side during his entire lifetime. There is a wonderful introduction that is very helpful in understanding this very talented and creative artist. I highly recommend this book to anyone that knows and enjoys Sargent's artistic work. For those of you who don't, this is a great introduction!
The glory of the nude male revealed despite the times..... July 11, 2001
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
John Singer Sargent is admired as one of this country's premiere portrait artists and museums clamor for any new Sargent that comes on the auction block. His stately Edwardian ladies and gentlemen are elegance personified. Yet as we slowly discover the private lives and portfolios of some of our nation's brightest lights in painting, we uncover other aspects of their gifts. Sargent's Male Nudes are here displayed in all their brilliance of line and tenderness of demeanor that only emphasizes Sargent's fondness for the male figure. Though the author (John Esten) does not dwell on the evidence of these homoerotic drawings and paintings, he gently offers the works themselves in the same context with the works of Thomas Eakins and the literature of Henry James and allows us to piece together the private, closeted lives they all shared. This is a brief but elegant and tender collection of works that deserve a much wider audience.
Full of Graceful Figures January 23, 2001
Mark R. Malecki (Arlington, Virginia United States)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
As someone that admired Sargent's beautiful figure and portrait drawings before he was recently rediscovered, and someone that admires, as well, 19th century male figure drawings, I was very happy to see this little gem. I liked the fact that watercolor, charcoal and oil paintings were included. I would have prevered a large size volume but this book is a good value. I think art students on a budget will appreciate the economy of this book. I hope Universe puts out a series on the figure drawings of some of the great artists such as Eakins and Degas.
 A disappointment. May 25, 1999
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
A disappointing selection of works, most of which are available already in several books on Sargent. And why they did not include the beautiful watercolor which is illustrated in Trevor Fairbrother's article A Private Album I cannot understand, as I have never seen it reproduced anywhere but in Arts Magazine from 1981. I have a feeling that there is another book out there if anyone cares to make a REAL effort and put it together.
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