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Full-Text Articles in Asian Art and Architecture
Street Life: Bangkok, Iris Brito-Stevens
The Stylistic Development Of Jean Despujols (1886-1965), Kelly M. Ward
The Stylistic Development Of Jean Despujols (1886-1965), Kelly M. Ward
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the life and most extant works by Jean Despujols. The French and later naturalized American painter, writer, poet, philosopher, deep-thinker, and mystic was best known for his Neoclassical and academic style. This thesis briefly discusses the artist’s beginnings as a young painter at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and in Paris, his sketches in the trenches of the First World War, his time at the Villa Medicis after winning the distinguished Rome Prize, and his paintings and thoughts as a philosopher and political writer throughout his life. An outstanding …