Unruly nature : the landscapes of Théodore Rousseau / Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp ; with an essay by Line Clausen Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allan, Scott, 1975- author.

Kopp, Édouard, 1974- author.

Contributor:

J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Ny Carlsberg glyptotek, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867--Exhibitions.

Rousseau, Théodore.

Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867--Criticism and interpretation.

Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2016]

Summary:

The landscape painting of Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) was greatly esteemed in the decades after his death, but came to be underappreciated as tastes shifted in the early twentieth century. Today there still persists the sense that his pictures are retrograde, nostalgic, and traditional. The exhibition "Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau" challenges this view, highlighting the tremendous shifts in motif, mood, style, and technique that Rousseau's oeuvre underwent between the late 1820s and the 1860s, thereby conveying a sense of the artist's restlessness as he attempted to formulate new vocabularies of landscape expression with all of the graphic and painterly means at his disposal.

Contents:

Directors' foreword / Timothy Potts and Flemming Friborg

Acknowledgments / Scott Allan, Édouard Kopp, and Line Clausen Pedersen

Lenders to the exhibition

Note to the reader

Introduction / Scott Allan

Lines of inquiry : Rousseau's drawings / Édouard Kopp

"A method matters little" : Rousseau's working procedures as a painter / Scott Allan

Facing criticism : Rousseau and the salon / Édouard Kopp

Rousseau's market, 1830-1914 / Scott Allan

Rousseau's storm over Mont Blanc / Line Clausen Pedersen

Plates

Checklist of the exhibition / Scott Allan.

Notes:

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from June 21 to September 11, 2016, and at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptokek, Copenhagen, from October 13, 2016 to January 8, 2017" --Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.

Contains:

Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867. Works. Selections

ISBN:

9781606064771

1606064770

OCLC:

927141158

Publisher Number:

40026174933