Gustave Caillebotte as worker, collector, painter. / Samuel Raybone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raybone, Samuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894.

Caillebotte, Gustave.

Painters--France--Biography.

Painters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collected paintings; cultivated and collected rare orchids; designed and tended his gardens; and engaged in local politics. Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter presents the first comprehensive account of Caillebotte's manifold activities. It presents a completely new critical interpretation of Caillebotte's broad career that highlights the singular salience of 'work', and which intersects histories and theories of visual culture, ideology, and psychoanalysis. Where the recent art historical 'rediscovery' of Caillebotte offers multiple narratives of his identification with working men, this book goes beyond them towards excavating what his work was in its own terms. Born to an haut bourgeois milieu in which he was never completely comfortable and assailed by traumatic familial bereavements, Caillebotte adopted and adapted the ideologically normative category of work for his own purposes, deconstructing its ostensibly class-determinate parameters in order to bridge the chasm of his social alienation.

Contents:

Illustrations Introduction

Part One 1. Work 2. Collecting

Part Two 3. Philately and Photography 4. Philatelic Impressionism

Part Three 5. Classed Corporeality and Naturalist Signification 6. Between Caillebotte and Zola

Part Four 7. Working as Caillebotte in Petit Gennevilliers

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781501339974

1501339974

9781501339950

1501339958

OCLC:

1183959829