Unruly nature
Subtitle: the landscapes of Théodore Rousseau
By: Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp ; with an essay by Line Clausen Pedersen
Contributors: Rousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867; J. Paul Getty Museum; Ny Carlsberg glyptotek
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781606064771
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Description: The landscape painting of Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) was greatly esteemed in the decades after his death, but came to be underappreciated as tastes shifted in the early twentieth century. Today there still persists the sense that his pictures are retrograde, nostalgic, and traditional. The exhibition "Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau" challenges this view, highlighting the tremendous shifts in motif, mood, style, and technique that Rousseau's oeuvre underwent between the late 1820s and the 1860s, thereby conveying a sense of the artist's restlessness as he attempted to formulate new vocabularies of landscape expression with all of the graphic and painterly means at his disposal.
Notes: "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from June 21 to September 11, 2016, and at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptokek, Copenhagen, from October 13, 2016 to January 8, 2017"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Directors' foreword / -- Timothy Potts and Flemming Friborg -- Acknowledgments / -- Scott Allan, Édouard Kopp, and Line Clausen Pedersen -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Note to the reader -- Introduction / -- Scott Allan; title: Lines of inquiry :; title: Rousseau's drawings  -- Édouard Kopp; title: "A method matters little" :; title: Rousseau's working procedures as a painter  -- Scott Allan; title: Facing criticism :; title: Rousseau and the salon  -- Édouard Kopp; title: Rousseau's market, 1830-1914  -- Scott Allan; title: Rousseau's storm over Mont Blanc -- Line Clausen Pedersen-- Plates-- Checklist of the exhibition /-- Scott Allan.