Impressionist France : visions of nation from Le Gray to Monet

Impressionist France : visions of nation from Le Gray to Monet / Simon Kelly and April M. Watson ; with Maura Coughlin and Neil McWilliam.

"Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrial...

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Corporate Authors: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum
Other Authors: Kelly, Simon (Simon R.), Watson, April M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis : Saint Louis Art Museum and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2013]
Subjects:
Landscapes in art > Exhibitions.
Impressionism (Art) > France > Exhibitions.
Nationalism and art > France > History > 19th century > Exhibitions.
National characteristics, French, in art > Exhibitions.
Art, French > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Landscape photography > France > History > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Holy Cross Note:Contains a reproduction of: Bringing Home the Newborn Calf, c.1857, by Jean François Millet (p. 184). Art original: charcoal with white heightening on cream wove paper; 27 x 32.3 cm in Worcester Art Museum (accession number: 1974.329).
Table of Contents:
  • Landscape as "National Art": Visions of France, 1851-1878 / Simon Kelly
  • Between Past and Progress, Empire and Enchantment : Photography, Landscape, and National Identity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France / April M. Watson
  • A Sense of Place : Representing the Region in Nineteenth-Century France / Neil McWilliam
  • Place Myths of the Breton Landscape / Maura Coughlin
  • Catalogue / Simon Kelly and April M. Watson
  • Paris and the modern cityscape
  • Monuments
  • Forests and rivers
  • Rural and agricultural life
  • Railroads and factories
  • Mountains
  • Marine views : ports and tourism
  • Chronology, 1850-1880 / Sydney Norton.

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