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 |
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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.