Seductive surfaces
Subtitle: the art of Tissot
By: edited by Katharine Lochnan.
Contributors: Lochnan, Katharine Jordan.
Series: Studies in British art ;; 6
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 1836-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "Engaging, sophisticated and witty, French-born artist James Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) painted for many years in London before returning to Paris in the 1880s. His works not only document contemporary fashion, manners and mores, but also the paradoxes and anxieties of his age. In this book, ten contributors approach Tissot and his art from a variety of theoretical positions and disciplines to arrive at fresh and often startling insights. Looking both at and beneath Tissot's seductive surfaces, the authors attempt to identify and decode the artist's subtexts - issues of gender, voyeurism, exhibitionism, fetishism, kitsch and spiritualism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Center for British Art."