Working among flowers : floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France
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Working among flowers : floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France
Dallas Museum of Art , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Distributed by Yale University Press, c2014
- : hardback
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Catalog of the exhibition held at the Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 26, 2014-Feb. 8, 2015 ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mar. 21-June 21, 2015 ; Denver Art Museum, July 19-Oct. 11, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (p 174-179) and index
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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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