Paradis ordinaires
Subtitle: l'artiste au jardin public
By: Emmanuel Pernoud
Series: Dedalus; Dedalus
Publisher: Presses du réel
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Dijon]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9782840665410
Subjects: Gardens in art; Painting; Themes, motives; French Art; Gardens; Social aspects
Description: This book asks the question: why have artists represented the public gardens with such consistency between the mid-nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth? The list is long indeed including painters, often famous, who signed works on these "green spaces". The public garden offered artists a miniature theater of urban civilities, illuminating the uses and sprains to the rules. Continuing the investigation beyond the Second World War, this study ends with the Situationists and their celebration of "square wave."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261).