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Working among flowers : floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France / Heather MacDonald and Mitchell Merling ; with essays by Audrey Gay-Mazuel, Olivier Meslay, and Sylvie Patry.
LIBRA ND1403.F85 W67 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flowers in art--Exhibitions.
- Flowers in art.
- Painting, French--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, French.
- Art and society--France--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Art and society.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 183 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Yale University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas ; Richmond : Dallas Museum of Art ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Working Among Flowers explores the infusion of new spirit and meaning into the traditional genre of floral still-life painting in 19th-century France, even as the advent of modernism was radically transforming the art world. This beautiful book features works by more than 30 artists, including well-known painters such as Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne as well as less familiar figures such as Antoine Berjon and Simon Saint-Jean. Insightful essays reveal the emerging dialogue between the floral still life, botanical illustration, and models of science; the critical context for instruction in and reception of flower painting; the misunderstood relationship between avant-garde flower painting and the market; the cultural meanings of the vases and ceramic vessels depicted by painters; and the literary context for flower painting."-- Provided by publisher.
- "Exhibition catalogue that will feature five scholarly articles relating to the history of the floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France. Catalogue section includes full-page color images of the 67 paintings in the exhibition with introductory commentary"-- Provided by publisher.
- "This catalogue accompanies exhibitions at the following museums: Dallas Museum of Art, October 26, 2014-February 8, 2015; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 21-June 21, 2015; Denver Art Museum, July 19-October 11, 2015."
- Contents:
- Information and Illusion : Botany and Painting at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century / Heather MacDonald
- The Path to the Modern Floral Still Life : Academy to Avant-Garde / Mitchell Merling
- Impressionist Flower Paintings and the Market / Sylvie Patry
- Ceramic Containers in French Nineteenth-Century Flower Painting / Audrey Gay-Mazuel
- Flowers in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry : A Time to Bloom, a Time to Die / Olivier Meslay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- MacDonald, Heather (Heather Eleanor). Information and illusion.
- Merling, Mitchell Frank. Path to the modern floral still life.
- Patry, Sylvie. Impressionist flower paintings and the market.
- Gay-Mazuel, Audrey. Ceramic containers in French nineteenth-century flower painting.
- Meslay, Olivier. A Rime to bloom, a time to die.
- ISBN:
- 9780300209501
- 0300209509
- OCLC:
- 879468563
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