Working among flowers
Subtitle: floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France
By: Heather MacDonald and Mitchell Merling ; with essays by Audrey Gay-Mazuel, Olivier Meslay, and Sylvie Patry
Contributors: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780300209501
Subjects: Art and society; French Painting; Flowers in art; Exhibitions; History
Description: "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."--

"Exhibition catalogue that will feature five scholarly articles relating to the history of the floral still-life painting in nineteenth-century France. Catalogue section includes full-page color images of the 67 paintings in the exhibition with introductory commentary"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Information and Illusion : Botany and Painting at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century / Heather MacDonald; title: The Path to the Modern Floral Still Life : Academy to Avant-Garde / Mitchell Merling; title: Impressionist Flower Paintings and the Market / Sylvie Patry; title: Ceramic Containers in French Nineteenth-Century Flower Painting / Audrey Gay-Mazuel; title: Flowers in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry : A Time to Bloom, a Time to Die / Olivier Meslay.