Research Catalog

Title

Goya : order & disorder / Stephanie Loeb Stepanek and Frederick Ilchman, curators ; Janis A. Tomlinson ; with contributions by Clifford S. Ackley, Jane E. Braun, Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Gudrun Maurer, Elisabetta Polidori, Sue Welsh Reed, Benjamin Weiss, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau.

Author

Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828

Publication

• Boston : MFA Publications, [2014]
• New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P., [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Stepanek, Stephanie Loeb
• Ilchman, Frederick
• Tomlinson, Janis A.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston issuing body.

Description

403 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"Francisco Goya has been widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, and an astute observer of the human condition in all its complexity. The many-layered and shifting meanings of his work have made him one of the most studied artists in the world. Few, however, have made the ambitious attempt to explore his work as a painter, printmaker and draftsman across media and the timeline of his life. This book does just that, presenting a comprehensive and integrated view of Goya's most important paintings, prints, and drawings through the themes and imagery that continually challenged or preoccupied the artist. They reveal how he strove relentlessly to understand and describe human behavior and emotional states, even at their most orderly or disorderly extremes, in elegant and incisive portraits, dramatic and monumental history paintings, and series of prints and drawings of a satirical, disturbing and surreal nature. Derived from the research for the largest Goya art exhibition in North America in a quarter-century, this book takes a fresh look at one of the greatest artists in history by examining the fertile territory between the two poles that defined the range of his boundlessly creative personality."--Book jacket.

Alternative Title

Goya : order and disorder

Subject

• Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828 > Exhibitions
• Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1700-1899
• 1700-talet
• 1800-talet
• Art, Spanish > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Spanish > 19th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 12, 2014-January 19, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-375) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Goya between order and disorder / Stephanie Loeb Stepanek and Frederick Ilchman -- The world of the artist: patrons, family, and friends / Janis A. Tomlinson -- Drawing connections / Juliet Wilson-Bareau -- Word and image / Manuela B. Mena Marqués -- [Catalog]. Goya looks at himself ; Life studies ; Play and prey ; Portraits ; Balancing acts ; Other worlds, other states ; Capturing history ; Solo Goya -- Chronology / Gudren Maurer -- The Caprichos announcement -- Materials and techniques / Elisabetta Polidori.

ISBN

• 9780878468089
• 0878468080

OCLC

• 890937593
• SCSB-11214563

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library