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Working among flowers : floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France

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.
Publication
  • Dallas : Dallas Museum of Art ; [Richmond] : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2014]
  • New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

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Additional Authors
  • MacDonald, Heather (Heather Eleanor)
  • Merling, Mitchell Frank
  • Patry, Sylvie
  • Gay-Mazuel, Audrey
  • Meslay, Olivier
  • Dallas Museum of Art, host institution
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution
  • Denver Art Museum, host institution
Description
xv, 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
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."--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JQG 14-533
ISBN
  • 9780300209501
  • 0300209509
LCCN
2014015512
OCLC
879468563
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 : Dallas Museum of Art ; [Richmond] : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2014]
Distributor
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179) and index.
Chronological Term
1800 - 1899
Added Author
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.
Research Call Number
JQG 14-533
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