Portraits of the Belle Époque :: Editorial direction by Tomàs Llorens and Boye Llorens

Museum Collections

US $ 85
UK £ 55

January 2012
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Museum Collection

ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-349-2
ISBN: 1-55595-349-2
272 pages
9½ x 12 in.
24 x 30 cm.
128 color plates

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Portraits of the Belle Époque

Editorial direction by Tomàs Llorens and Boye Llorens
Essays by Valeriano Bozal, Danièle Devynck,
Barbara Guidi, Boye Llorens, Tomàs Llorens, and Pilar Pedraza

♦ Details the pioneering initiative to elucidate portraiture and its significance in society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

♦ The exhibition brings together works from approximately forty museums and private collections in Europe and the United States

The historical period commonly referred to as the Belle Époque—the final decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning years of the twentieth—continues to intrigue primarily because of the progressive changes that occurred in the arts, which spanned the period from Impressionism to the early avant-garde movements.

Although the art created during this era garnered esteem and a following, certain aspects of the artistic life that were crucial at the time have since been obscured or forgotten. One of the goals of the exhibition Portraits of the Belle Époque is to bring light to the art that characterized life through portraiture, a genre that not only best defines the timeframe but one that also illuminates the relationship between art and the society of the time.

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Portraits of the Belle Époque