Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne : Paris 1880-1910 / Phillip Dennis Cate, editor ; with contributions by Fred Leeman, Christopher Lloyd, and Belinda Thomson.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, November 2, 2013-January 19, 2014; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 8-May 18, 2014; Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, June 7-August 17, 2014; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 6-November 16, 2014; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, December 5, 2014-January 11, 2015; and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, January 31-April 26, 2015. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this catalogue celebrates the groundbreaking avant-garde artists whose works embody the spirit and decadence of fin de siècle and Belle Époque Paris. Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne is a celebration of the work of a generation of avant-garde artists at the turn of the nineteenth century in Paris who fought for artistic liberation against the strict codes of the Academy. Like the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists who preceded them, the Nabis, Incohérents, Symbolists, and Naturalists sought to reinterpret a rapidly changing society that was no longer easily definable. Artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, and Félix Vallotton, among others, render with naturalism and vivacity modern Parisian life and its café-concerts, cabarets, and brothels; street scenes and landscapes; and intimate domestic interiors. Exhibition: Travelling exhibition in the US.
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