Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth

A key study of how Van Gogh popularised the sous-bois genre, capturing the forest scene through paint.

List of contents

Director's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Undergrowth with Two Figures [working title] by Laura Prins

"The Great Revolution": Van Gogh, The Barbizon School and Constructing an Avant-Garde by Simon Kelly

Tree Lovers: Development and Meaning of the Sous-Bois Genre by Jenny Reynaerts

Van Gogh's Nature-Taking Position by Cornelia Homburg

Catalogue by Laura Prins

Artist Biographies by Anne Buening

Bibliography

Photography Credits

Index

About the author

Laura Prins is a a researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. Jenny Reynaerts is senior curator of 18th and 19th century paintings at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Simon Kelly is the Curator and Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. His essay, 'A, Big, Good Enterprise': Van Gogh and His Markets' in Becoming Van Gogh (Yale University Press) was honored in 2013 as Outstanding Catalogue Essay by the Association of Art Museum Curators. Cornelia Homburg is an independent art historian, and guest curator of Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth. Kristi A. Nelson, Sr. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Art History, University of Cincinnati.

Summary

Features 25 artworks by Van Gogh and other leading landscape painters including Charles-Francois Daubigny, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin Presents extensive new research on Van Gogh, nature and the sous-bois genre

Product details

• Authors: Cornelia Homburg, Homburg Cornelia, Simon Kelly, Kelly Simon, Laura Prins, Prins Laura, Reynaerts Jenny
• Assisted by: Kristi Nelson (Editor)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781907804847
• ISBN: 978-1-907804-84-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 279 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 1157 g
• Illustrations: 76 colour
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Impressionism, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, ART / Movements / Impressionism & Post-Impressionism