The Language of the Body: Drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon [ART, FRENCH]

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc. New. 1996. Hardcover. 0810935856 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 221 pp -- clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. "A treasure for connoisseurs and scholars, this volume showcases the ravishing chalk studies of male and female nude models made after 1800 by famous French painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Often called "the French Correggio" for his freewheeling mythological and allegorical canvases, Prud'hon (1758-1823) was an unorthodox public artist of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. The Romantic generation championed his melancholy, mysterious eroticism, which is on full display in these feminized male bodies and idealized female torsos. Chief curator at large for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Elderfield looks at Prud'hon's unhappy life? he separated from his violent, drunken wife after 25 years, gaining custody of his five children when she was committed to an insane asylum? and masterfully analyzes startling works that blur normally separated categories (masculine/feminine, platonic/passionate, cool/ecstatic) in a transgressive fantasy of desire. Gordon is an independent art historian." Book Review, by John Elderfield, From Publishers Weekly -- with a bonus offer--; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .