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