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Title:

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.

Publisher:

Dallas Museum of Art ;

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xv, 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Subject:

Flowers in art--Exhibitions.
Painting, French--19th century--Exhibitions.
Art and society--France--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
ART--Plants & Animals.--Plants & Animals.
ART--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art and society.
Flowers in art.
Painting, French.
France.
1800 - 1899
Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

MacDonald, Heather (Heather Eleanor), author. Information and illusion.
Merling, Mitchell Frank, author. Path to the modern floral still life.
Patry, Sylvie, author. Impressionist flower paintings and the market.
Gay-Mazuel, Audrey, author. Ceramic containers in French nineteenth-century flower painting.
Meslay, Olivier, author. A Rime to bloom, a time to die.
Dallas Museum of Art, host institution.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.
Denver Art Museum, host institution.

Notes:

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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179) and index.

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0300209509
9780300209501

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879468563

LCCN:

2014015512

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)