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.
"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...
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Language: | English |
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Dallas : [Richmond] :
Dallas Museum of Art ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
[2014]
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Physical Description: | xv, 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"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. |
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Note: | Exhibition co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and held at the 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. |
Call Number: | ND1403.F85 W67 2014 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780300209501 0300209509 |