From Millet to Léger : essays in social art history

From Millet to Léger : essays in social art history /

"A pre-eminent scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art, Robert L. Herbert has written extensively on aspects of this subject during his long career. This book brings together some of his most important essays, works that discuss the artistic and social issues that lie behind the...

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Author / Contributor: Herbert, Robert L., 1929-2020
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Art and society > France.
Art, French > 19th century.
Art, French > 20th century.
Art and society.
Art, French.
France.
1800-1999
Table of Contents:
  • Industry in the changing landscape from Daubigny to Monet
  • City vs. country: the rural image in French painting from Millet to Gauguin
  • Peasants and "Primitivism"
  • Courbet's Mère Grégoire and Béranger
  • The decorative and the natural in Monet's Cathedrals
  • Impressionism, originality, and laissez-faire
  • Artists and anarchism: unpublished letters of Pissarro, Signac, and others
  • Léger's Le gran déjeuner
  • Léger, the Renaissance, and "Primitivism"
  • The arrival of the machine: Modernist art in Europe, 1910-1925
  • Principal writings by Robert L. Herbert.

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