Pierre Bonnard the late still lifes and interiors edited by Dita Amory ; with essays by Dita Amory, Rika Burnham, Jack Flam, Rémi Labrusse, and Jacqueline Munck ; and contributions from Nicole R. Myers and Allison Stielau

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonnard, Pierre, 1867-1947, artist.

Contributor:

Amory, Dita, 1954-

Myers, Nicole R.

Stielau, Allison

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonnard, Pierre, 1867-1947--Exhibitions.

Bonnard, Pierre.

Bonnard, Pierre, 1867-1947.

Still-life painting, French--20th century--Exhibitions.

Still-life painting, French.

Interior architecture in art--Exhibitions.

Interior architecture in art.

Still-life in art--Exhibitions.

Still-life in art.

Genre:

Art criticism

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Late still lifes and interiors.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2009]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"The vibrant late paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) are considered by many to be among his finest achievements. Working in a small converted bedroom of his villa in the south of France, Bonnard suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand--usually everyday scenes taken from his immediate surroundings, such as the dining room table being set for breakfast, or a jug of flowers perched on the mantelpiece--Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he preferred to make pencil sketches in small diaries and then rely on these, along with his memory, once in the studio. This volume, which accompanies the first exhibition to focus on the interior and related still-life imagery from the last decades of Bonnard's long career, presents more than seventy-five paintings, drawings, and works on paper, many of them rarely seen in public and in some cases, little known. Although Bonnard's legacy may be removed from the succession of trends that today we consider the foundation of modernism, his contribution to French art in the early decades of the twentieth century is far more profound than history has generally acknowledged. In their insightful essays and catalogue entries the authors bring fresh critical perspectives to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard's reputation and to his place within the narrative of twentieth-century art."--Jacket

Contents:

Director's foreword Thomas P. Campbell The presence of objects : still life in Bonnard's late paintings Dita Amory A desire for dispossession : portrait of the artist as a reader of Mallarmé Rémi Labrusse Bonnard in the history of twentieth-century art Jack Flam "The cat drank all the milk!" : Bonnard's continuous present Jacqueline Munck Intelligent seeing Rika Burnham

Catalogue

Selected chronology

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 27-April 19, 2009

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Bonnard, Pierre, 1867-1947. Pierre Bonnard

OCLC:

609091473