Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau

Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau
ISBN-10
0691059462
ISBN-13
9780691059464
Category
Art
Pages
275
Language
English
Published
2000
Author
Greg M. Thomas

Description

These paintings - dreams of nature as a web of life in which human beings occupy a peripheral role - overwhelmed Rousseau's contemporaries with their novel light effects, original perspective, and "sheer profusion of visual sensation." While Baudelaire considered them superior to even Corot's works, they baffled art critics and have never fit convincingly into the received categories of naturalism, "pre-Impressionism," or modernism."--Jacket.

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