Noir: the romance of black in 19th-century French drawings and prints

Abstract

"Accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and explores tonality and black media in nineteenth-century French drawings and prints"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Revivals and modernity: the printed image in nineteenth-century France / Cynthia Burlingham -- Prelude: dark romanticism / Lee Hendrix -- Landscape, charcoal, and the etching revival / Lee Hendrix -- Realism / Lee Hendrix -- Fantasy and dreams / Lee Hendrix -- The optics of shadow / Lee Hendrix -- Diversity and complexity in black drawing media: four case studies / Michelle Sullivan and Nancy Yocco -- Dessin au fusain: nineteenth-century French charcoal drawing materials and techniques / Timothy David Mayhew -- A closer look: an illustrated glossary of materials and techniques used in nineteenth-century noir drawings / Michelle Sullivan and Nancy Yocco.