
Working Among Flowers
Floral Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
Yale University Press
Published on 11. November 2014
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-300-20950-1 (ISBN)
Description
A superb exploration of the radical re-invention of the floral still life by 19th-century French painters 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 Cezanne 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
150 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1475 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-20950-1 (9780300209501)
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Heather MacDonald is the Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Mitchell Merling is the Paul Mellon Curator and head of the Department of European Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Audrey Gay-Mazuel is curator for the Department of the Nineteenth Century at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Olivier Meslay is associate director of curatorial affairs at the Dallas Museum of Art. Sylvie Patry is chief curator of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings at the Musee d'Orsay.
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