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Tissot

Tissot

by Christopher Wood (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $4.36
Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 13 Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 0753804573
ISBN 13: 9780753804575
Book Overview: * vivid portrait of Tissot--- of his work and life and the tensions and contradictions that lay beneath the deceptively glossy surface of both. *Concise and informative text from one of worlds specialists in Victorian art. *Covers Tissot's entire artistic career. *Illustrated with over 170 of Tissot's paintings and contemprary photographs. *Special flapped paperback edition.

Author Bio
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.