Soil and stone : impressionism, urbanism, environment / edited by Frances Fowle and Richard Thomson ; series editor, Frances Fowle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fowle, Frances.

Thomson, Richard, 1953-

Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh.

Series:

VARIE series.

VARIE series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, European--19th century--Congresses.

Arts, European.

Country life in art--Congresses.

Country life in art.

City and town life in art--Congresses.

City and town life in art.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; Edinburgh, Scotland : VARIE, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction / Richard Thomson

The viewer on the beach / John House

Courbet's touch / Paul Galvez

This dangerous game: Rousseau, Diaz and the uses of the auction in the marketing of landscapes / Simon Kelly

Footsteps in Normandy: Jean-François Millet and provincial nostalgia in late-nineteenth-century France / Bradley Fratello

Legendary places: oral history and folk geography in nineteenth-century Brittany / David Hopkin

Rivers of lemonade and mountains of sugar: representations of country and city in nineteenth-century French children's literature / Anna Green

Promenades et plantations: Impressionism, conservation and Haussmann's reinvention of Paris / Clare A.P. Willsdon

The insatiable appetite of Paris: Zola's Claude Lantier before L'Œuvre / Michael Pakenham

Painting like a Provençal: Cézanne, Van Gogh and the secret of Monticelli's alchemy / Frances Fowle

Monet's Rouen Cathedrals: anarchism, Gothic architecture and instantaneous photography / Richard Thomson.

Notes:

Papers taken from the conference, "Soil & Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment" staged by VARIE on October 12-13, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754636852

OCLC:

51460685