Laurence Des Cars

Sébastien Allard

Henri Loyrette

During the nineteenth century, France experienced an unprecedented growth in the visual arts, and Paris was its center. French art became a universally accepted benchmark, spreading its many ground-breaking developments -- the radicalism of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the daring of Art Nouveau, and the innovations of Haussman's new urban landscape -- far beyond its borders, and in return receiving numerous influences from broad. During this extraordinary rich and productive period, French art also benefited from the synthesis of the past with the innovations of the present, resulting in an artistic output whose legacy is still being felt today. This chronological history, richly illustrated and recounted by experts from France's preeminent museums, charts the growth of this fruitful -- and revolutionary -- period in the history of world art. -- From publisher's description.

From Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau

Nineteenth Century French Art

The first place the twenty-year-old Yan Pei-Ming visited in France in 1980 was Ornans, the birthplace of the French Realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty-nine years later, he takes the 200th anniversary of the birthday of his hero as an opportunity to show monumental reverence toward him and his masterpiece, An Interment in Ornans (1849/50) at the Musée d'Orsay. Yan Pei-Ming transforms and translates this scene into a contemporary Interment in Shang-hai, the city where he grew up, and where his mother is buried. The artist's book documents this undertaking in 290 divisible fragments. When assembled, they form the painting in its original size, which is more than six meters wide and three meters high.Bilingual edition: French and English.

Un Enterrement À Shanghai

Yan Pei-Ming (bilingual Edition)

Kimberly Jones

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Dario Gamboni

Mary Anne Stevens

Guy Cogeval

Édouard Vuillard

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

"The long and illustrious career of Edouard Vuillard spans the fin-de-siecle and the first four decades of the twentieth century, during which time the French painter, printmaker, and photographer created an extraordinary body of work. This is the first volume to explore Vuillard's rich and varied career in its totality, presenting nearly 350 works that demonstrate the full range of his subject matter and reveal both the public and private sides of this quintessentially Parisian artist." "In a series of illustrated essays and catalogue entries, the authors explore Vuillard's complex and diverse artistic development, beginning with his academic training in Paris in the late 1880s and the innovative Nabi paintings of the 1890s for which he is best known, including his provocative, disquieting middle-class interiors and his work associated with the avant-garde theatre. The authors also examine Vuillard's splendid but lesser known large-scale decorations, his luminous landscapes, and the elegant portraits from the last decades of his career. In addition to paintings, the volume includes a substantial selection of drawings and graphics, together with a large group of striking photographs by the artist, many of which are published here for the first time." "This illustrated catalogue accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the work of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940). The exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and travels to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

E. Vuillard

Chrétien de Troyes

Philippe Walter

Composés à la fin du XIIe siècle, Yvain et Lancelot sont les deux oeuvres emblématiques de Chrétien de Troyes. Au fil d'aventures inspirées de la légende arthurienne, les héros de la Table Ronde doivent maintenir le délicat équilibre entre amour courtois et prouesses chevaleresques. Les peintres préraphaélites, notamment Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones ou William Morris, réalisent à la fin du XIXe siècle des oeuvres dont l'intensité, l'émotion et la grâce illustrent admirablement les scènes intimes et épiques des romans de Chrétien de Troyes. C'est l'occasion de redécouvrir au fil d'une promenade enchanteresse deux époques, deux univers unis dans une même quête de valeurs, de beauté et de spiritualité. La recherche de la pureté et de l'émotion, la prééminence du désir et du coeur, la création d'un imaginaire merveilleux et poétique unit Chrétien de Troyes et les préraphaélites au-delà des siècles. Une incarnation intense et poétique des héros mythiques de la légende arthurienne par les peintres préraphaélites. Une iconographie puissante, habitée par le souffle du mythe arthurien, restitue ici toute l'énergie des romans de Chrétien de Troyes, loin de l'inertie des enluminures médiévales. Deux romans d'amour et d'armes, présentés dans une nouvelle mise en page, plus aérée, pour un plus grand plaisir de lecture. Des personnages indémodables : la légende arthurienne inspire tous les arts et tous les âges : de Thomas Malory au XVe siècle au film Lancelot avec Sean Connery, la série télévisée Kaamelot, les Monty Python ou le Merlin de Walt Disney. Au-delà de leur beauté esthétique, le texte et les oeuvres picturales sont emplies de symboles et d'allégories. La contribution de spécialistes reconnus, Philippe Walter et Laurence des Cars, nous éclaire et nous guide pour une lecture multiple de ces chefs d'oeuvres.

Illustrés par la peinture préraphaélite

Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion ; Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charette

This work offers an overview of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one of the most popular art movements that included artists such as William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett.

Romance and Realism

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which has aroused great curiosity since plans were first announced for the groundbreaking museum in 2007, will unveil a selected part of its nascent collection in April 2013. While the building that will house the museum collection, designed by architect Jean Nouvel, is already well- known, this book the first to be dedicated to the museums collection allows the reader to discover the universal spirit that permeates and incarnates the birth of this new museum. The growing collection, presented here for the first time, best captures and expresses the essence and spirit of the museum itself. These 300 works, reproduced in exceptionally high-quality photographs commissioned for the publication, open a dialogue between the diverse world cultures and their artistic expressions, from the most antiquated to the ultra contemporary, ranging from archaeological treasures to groundbreaking works of contemporary art. All artistic traditions are present, from Ancient Egypt and Greco-Roman art to Islamic art and grand Asian statuary, from works by Bellini and Murillo to Manet or Mondrian, and masterpieces from the European Renaissance or an Art Deco ensemble, to Indian miniatures or paintings by Yan Pei-Ming. The works are analyzed in their cultural context, highlighting their particularities, while simultaneously placing them at the crossroads of the great cultures that comprise the museums collections.

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