Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300179804 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Arcadia in Philadelphia This is the volume published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from June to September 2012. Writing in "The New York Times," Ken Johnson accused the museum of "false advertising" for mounting only ten of the core trio's paintings and filling out the show with "second- and third-rank" painters. I have not seen the exhibition and don't know how much justice there is in t. "I love it" according to C'ville reader. Beautiful and fascinating catalog from an outstanding show.
Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Senior Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art.. About the AuthorJoseph J
Joseph J. Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Senior Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Virgil envisioned such a place of bucolic pleasures—erotic and unsullied, sometimes shadowed by blunted desires and doubts—in his Eclogues, set in the valley of Arcadia in ancient Greece. The notion of a golden age set in an earthly paradise has long kindled the human imagination. Distinguished scholars place these artists within the larger context of this inventive period in art history.. Other masterpieces by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nicolas Poussin, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes establish the high value given to Arcadia in the history of French painting. His poems defined for Western art and literature a theme that continues to this day. Their resonance as a foundation for European painters around 1900 is the subject of this beautifully illustrated catalogue, which focuses on three monumental paintings—Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98)