Item Number: 125062 Title: Secrets and Glory : Baron TAYLOR and his Voyage Pittoresque en Espagne Author: Luxenberg, Alisa Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788415245292 Description: Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2013. 28 x 23cm., hardcover, 321pp. illus., several in color. English text. Summary: This is the first full critical study of Voyage pittoresque en Espagne by Baron Taylor (1789-1879), a key work in the nineteenth-century travel literature which established Spain as a new and exotic tourist destination in Europe. Both the long gestation of the book and the multiple facets of its author's career have always been wrapped in mysteries, which Alisa Luxenberg now brilliantly resolves, discovering unknown aspects of Taylor's life —his Masonic membership, his literary pseudonyms, the family he maintained in secret for a long time— which are decisive in explaining his complex personal life and his ambitious publishing ventures. Relying on copious archival sources, which are placed in a solid social and political context, this research reveals the close links between Taylor's travels in the Iberian Peninsula, the Voyage pittoresque en Espagne and the group of paintings that King Louis Philippe exhibited in the Spanish Gallery at the Louvre between 1838 and 1848. Luxenberg also questions whether there was a single authorship of the Voyage pittoresque, analysing its engravings in parallel with the unpublished series of drawings which served as their basis. All this enables us to understand better the way in which the great work was conceived and executed, and also the audience at which it was aimed and the impact it had on the arts and letters of its period. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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