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Soil and stone : impressionism, urbanism, environment
- Title
- Soil and stone : impressionism, urbanism, environment / edited by Frances Fowle and Richard Thomson.
- Publication
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Varie ; Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Pub., ©2003.
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- Description
- xiv, 175 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The essayists in this volume examine the complex relationship between country and city. Their work draws widely on the contemporary culture, exploring folklore and children's literature, anarchism and urbanism, and offers significant new insights into the work of major artists and writers including Courbet, Millet, Monet, Van Gogh and Zola."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- VARIE series
- Uniform Title
- VARIE occasional papers
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Arts, European > 19th century > Congresses
- Country life in art > Congresses
- City and town life in art > Congresses
- Arts, European
- City and town life in art
- Country life in art
- Impressionismus
- Kunst
- Landleben Motiv
- Stadtleben Motiv
- Impressionisme
- Stad en platteland
- Painting, French > 19th century
- French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Impressionism (Art) > France
- Country life in literature
- City and town life in literature
- Arts > Europe > 19e siècle
- Vie rurale > Dans l'art
- Vie urbaine > Dans l'art
- Europa
- Edinburgh <2001>
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Conference proceedings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Richard Thomson -- Courbet's touch / Paul Galvez -- This dangerous game: Rousseau, Diaz and the uses of the auction in the marketing of landscapes / Simon Kelly -- Footsteps in Normandy: Jean-François Millet and provincial nostalgia in late-nineteenth-century France / Bradley Fratello -- Legendary places: oral history and folk geography in nineteenth-century Brittany / David Hopkin -- Rivers of lemonade and mountains of sugar: representations of country and city in nineteenth-century French children's literature / Anna Green -- Promenades et plantations: Impressionism, conservation and Haussmann's reinvention of Paris / Clare A.P. Willsdon -- The insatiable appetite of Paris: Zola's Claude Lantier before L'Œuvre / Michael Pakenham -- Painting like a Provençal: Cézanne, Van Gogh and the secret of Monticelli's alchemy / Frances Fowle -- Monet's Rouen Cathedrals: anarchism, Gothic architecture and instantaneous photography / Richard Thomson.
- ISBN
- 0754636852
- 9780754636854
- LCCN
- 2003040443
- OCLC
- ocm51460685
- 51460685
- SCSB-1316073
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library