Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints garden of delight and cult places

and cult places

96 color 
illustrations

7 b/w illustrations

The hardcover edition of this book is out of print

Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints garden of delight and cult placesEdited by Lee Hendrix With contributions by Lee Hendrix, Cynthia Burlingham, Laurel Garber, Timothy David Mayhew, Michelle Sullivan, and Nancy Yocco Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed,