'Painting the Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse', Royal Academy Publications, 2015
The scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name celebrating the garden in early modern art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 October 2015 – 5 January 2016 and Royal Academy of Arts, London 30 January – 20 April 2016. Published by Royal Academy Publications, 2015 (First edition). 328 pp., 250 illustrations, 28.5 x 31 x 3cm. With contributions by William H. Robinson, Curator of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Priest, Head Gardener at Monet’s garden at Giverny; Heather Lemonedes, Curator of Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Ann Dumas, specialist in French nineteenth-century art and a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts; Clare P. Willsdon, professor of the History of Western Art at the University of Glasgow; and horticulturalist and broadcaster Monty Don.
Title: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Authors: William Robinson, James Priest, Heather Lemonedes, Ann Dumas, Clare P. Willsdon, Monty Don
Publisher: Royal Academy Publications
Publication date: 2015
Format: Softcover
Pages: 328 pp.
Condition: Very good. Slight edgewear, otherwise a very good copy.
ISBN 978 1 910350 03 4
While depictions of gardens are found across the centuries and around the world, within Europe the Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries, centring on Monet, a great horticulturalist as well as a great artist, and the creation of his garden at Giverny, where he painted his Water Lilies series. 'I owe it to flowers,' he wrote, 'that I have become a painter.' Beautifully illustrated with masterpieces from Monet and fellow Impressionists, and from later painters - such as Bonnard, Sargent, Klee, Kandinsky and Matisse - Painting the Modern Garden traces the changing influences of artistic movements and social and political effects on the garden in modern art. Chapters explore the aesthetic importance of gardens to these artists, and also their significance as utopian spaces of imagination and reverie, as well as of spiritual refuge.
The scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name celebrating the garden in early modern art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 October 2015 – 5 January 2016 and Royal Academy of Arts, London 30 January – 20 April 2016. Published by Royal Academy Publications, 2015 (First edition). 328 pp., 250 illustrations, 28.5 x 31 x 3cm. With contributions by William H. Robinson, Curator of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Priest, Head Gardener at Monet’s garden at Giverny; Heather Lemonedes, Curator of Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Ann Dumas, specialist in French nineteenth-century art and a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts; Clare P. Willsdon, professor of the History of Western Art at the University of Glasgow; and horticulturalist and broadcaster Monty Don.
Title: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Authors: William Robinson, James Priest, Heather Lemonedes, Ann Dumas, Clare P. Willsdon, Monty Don
Publisher: Royal Academy Publications
Publication date: 2015
Format: Softcover
Pages: 328 pp.
Condition: Very good. Slight edgewear, otherwise a very good copy.
ISBN 978 1 910350 03 4
While depictions of gardens are found across the centuries and around the world, within Europe the Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries, centring on Monet, a great horticulturalist as well as a great artist, and the creation of his garden at Giverny, where he painted his Water Lilies series. 'I owe it to flowers,' he wrote, 'that I have become a painter.' Beautifully illustrated with masterpieces from Monet and fellow Impressionists, and from later painters - such as Bonnard, Sargent, Klee, Kandinsky and Matisse - Painting the Modern Garden traces the changing influences of artistic movements and social and political effects on the garden in modern art. Chapters explore the aesthetic importance of gardens to these artists, and also their significance as utopian spaces of imagination and reverie, as well as of spiritual refuge.
The scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name celebrating the garden in early modern art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 October 2015 – 5 January 2016 and Royal Academy of Arts, London 30 January – 20 April 2016. Published by Royal Academy Publications, 2015 (First edition). 328 pp., 250 illustrations, 28.5 x 31 x 3cm. With contributions by William H. Robinson, Curator of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Priest, Head Gardener at Monet’s garden at Giverny; Heather Lemonedes, Curator of Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Ann Dumas, specialist in French nineteenth-century art and a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts; Clare P. Willsdon, professor of the History of Western Art at the University of Glasgow; and horticulturalist and broadcaster Monty Don.
Title: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Authors: William Robinson, James Priest, Heather Lemonedes, Ann Dumas, Clare P. Willsdon, Monty Don
Publisher: Royal Academy Publications
Publication date: 2015
Format: Softcover
Pages: 328 pp.
Condition: Very good. Slight edgewear, otherwise a very good copy.
ISBN 978 1 910350 03 4
While depictions of gardens are found across the centuries and around the world, within Europe the Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries, centring on Monet, a great horticulturalist as well as a great artist, and the creation of his garden at Giverny, where he painted his Water Lilies series. 'I owe it to flowers,' he wrote, 'that I have become a painter.' Beautifully illustrated with masterpieces from Monet and fellow Impressionists, and from later painters - such as Bonnard, Sargent, Klee, Kandinsky and Matisse - Painting the Modern Garden traces the changing influences of artistic movements and social and political effects on the garden in modern art. Chapters explore the aesthetic importance of gardens to these artists, and also their significance as utopian spaces of imagination and reverie, as well as of spiritual refuge.