Velazquez' Las Meninas
Velázquez's 1656 masterpiece Las Meninas has inspired an avalanche of published attention since it was first placed on public view in the Museo del Prado in 1819. The essays in this volume survey the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velázquez's fame outside Spain peaked. They include introductions to interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists, as well as the modern appropriation of the work by Picasso.
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- Full title :Velazquez' Las Meninas / edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt.
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Velázquez's 1656 masterpiece Las Meninas has inspired an avalanche of published attention since it was first placed on public view in the Museo del Prado in 1819. The essays in this volume survey the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velázquez's fame outside Spain peaked. They include introductions to interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists, as well as the modern appropriation of the work by Picasso.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:pages cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521800579, 9780521800570, 0521804884, 9780521804882
- oclc:ocn223147930
- LC Classification:ND813.V4
- Dewey Decimal:759.6
Table of Contents
1. Introduction / Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt -- 2. The Aura of a Masterpiece: Responses to Las Meninas in Nineteenth-Century Spain and France / Alisa Luxenberg -- 3. A Masterpiece in Waiting: The Response to Las Meninas in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Xanthe Brooke -- 4. Why Drag in Velazquez?: Realism, Aestheticism, and the Nineteenth-Century American Response to Las Meninas / M. Elizabeth Boone -- 5. Velazquez's Las Meninas: An Interpretive Primer / Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt -- 6. Representing Representation: Reading Las Meninas, Again / Estrella De Diego -- 7. Las Meninas in Twentieth-Century Art / Gertje R. Utley.
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