Private lives : home and family in the art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900 / Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown; with contributions by Francesca Berry, Francesca Brittan, Kathleen Kete, and Saskia Ooms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Mary Weaver, curator.

Contributor:

Brown, Heather Lemonedes, curator.

Griswold, William, writer of foreword.

Ferriso, Brian J., writer of foreword.

Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution.

Portland Art Museum (Or.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nabis (Group of artists)--Exhibitions.

Nabis (Group of artists).

Art, French--19th century--Exhibitions.

Art, French.

Home in art--Exhibitions.

Home in art.

Families in art--Exhibitions.

Families in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxi, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 32 cm

Production:

Home and family in the art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900.

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press.

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2021]

Contents:

Directors' foreword / William M. Griswold and Brian J. Ferriso

Introducing the Nabis / Heather Lemonedes Brown

Intimism and the "daily tragedy and mystery of ordinary existence" / Mary Weaver Chapin

Interior dramas / Mary Weaver Chapin

The gender politics of the Nabis / Francesca Berry

Family life / Mary Weaver Chapin

Home and family through the camera / Saskia Ooms

Music chez soi / Mary Weaver Chapin

Music at home in the Belle Époque / Francesca Brittan

In the garden / Heather Lemonedes Brown

Pets and family life in nineteenth-century France / Kathleen Kete

The Nabi city / Heather Lemonedes Brown.

Notes:

Published on the occassion of the exhibition, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from July 1 to September 19, 2021 and at the Portland Art Museum from October 23, 2021 to January 23, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.

ISBN:

9780300257595

0300257597

OCLC:

1198559030