Musee D'Orsay,9783829026710

Musee D'Orsay

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ISBN13: 9783829026710
ISBN10: 3829026714
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Konemann
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Table of Contents

Plans of museum 8(4)
Paris railroad station provides home for 19th-century art
12(16)
Musee d'Orsay statistics (with opening hours)
26(2)
Ground floor (plans pp. 30--33)
28(144)
Sculpture from Rude to Carpeaux
34(16)
Expression of Despair - the ``Ugolino'' theme in the hands of Carpeaux and Rodin
40(6)
Political allegory on a large scale
46(4)
Painting from Gerome to Meissonier
50(18)
Scandals, in fighting, and intrigues - the ``Salon'' and the ``Refuses''
54(14)
Honore Daumier
68(6)
Light and shade - mothers portrayed in art
70(2)
Daumier's terracotta busts - political physiognomics
72(2)
The Barbizon School
74(16)
The Provinces take Paris by storm
86(4)
Gustave Courbet
90(11)
In the eye of the beholder
96(5)
Puvis de Chavannes and Moreau
101(3)
Early Degas
104(4)
Early Manet
108(12)
In defence of modernism - Emile Zola, art critic
110(6)
A classical goddess and her modern sister
116(4)
Bazille and early Renoir
120(5)
Painter friends - portraits of Renoir and Bazille
122(3)
Early Monet
125(13)
A summer picnic
126(4)
Portraits of ladies of the Second Empire
130(2)
Alternative ways of reaching the public - the first group exhibition by the impressionists
132(6)
Henri Fantin-Latour
138(2)
Seascapes and beach landscapes
140(4)
Orientalism
144(10)
``...we are now Orientalists'' (Victor Hugo, 1829) - Oriental trends and Oriental studies
148(6)
Decorative arts and historicism
154(8)
Architectural models
160(2)
International arts and crafts
162(10)
Upper level (plans pp. 174--177)
172(220)
The Moreau-Nelaton Collection
178(14)
Historical painting and modernity
180(8)
Charles Baudelaire - discoverer of modernity
188(4)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
192(2)
Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
194(8)
On women painters and other oddities - women painters in Paris
198(4)
Gustave Caillebotte
202(2)
Edgar Degas
204(14)
The bohemian life - the cafe as a meeting place for artists
212(6)
Degas the sculptor
218(5)
Edouard Manet
223(7)
An impressionistic triad
228(2)
Camille Pissarro
230(5)
Alfred Sisley
235(3)
Auguste Renoir
238(10)
New steps
244(4)
Claude Monet
248(22)
Water, wind, and sun
250(4)
The railroad station - the cathedral of the 19th century
254(8)
At the edge of the visible - mountain landscapes by Monet and Hodler
262(4)
The loss of the original
266(4)
Vincent van Gogh
270(26)
The long road to fame - Vincent van Gogh and his heritage
276(6)
From Naturalism to Expressionism
282(6)
Places of retreat - in search of the artist's personal style
288(8)
Paul Cezanne
296(18)
The ``realization'' of nature in paintings the Bathers series
302(10)
Colorful pictures for the show booth
312(2)
Degas' pastels
314(6)
``Les Japons chez nous'' - Japan comes to Paris
316(4)
The late work of Monet and Renoir
320(7)
Odilon Redon
327(7)
Fin de siecle - the pleasure in the decline of one's own age
330(4)
The Gachet Collection
334(4)
Henri Rousseau
338(4)
The Pont-Aven School
342(8)
Gauguin in the Tropics
350(13)
Timelessness and mythical experience of the world - Gauguin's South Sea paintings
356(4)
Stocktaking - two self-portraits
360(3)
Neo-Impressionism
363(11)
Purity of the color spectrum as the aim of painting - Seurat, Signac, and neo-Impressionism
368(6)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
374(10)
A place for art (history) - Montmartre between social misery and new beginnings in art
376(8)
Small-format paintings
384(8)
Hunger for pictures - from panorama to photography
386(6)
Mezzanine - (plans pp.394--397)
392(110)
Examples of academic paintings and sculptures
398(10)
The Festival Hall of the Hotel d'Orsay
402(6)
The Franco-Prussian War
408(12)
``Nouveau Paris - the capital of Europe''
412(8)
Naturalism
420(12)
Panorama of the age - the world exhibitions
426(6)
Europe around 1900
432(8)
Art Nouveau in France and Belgium
440(22)
Commercial art and architecture
444(14)
Glass windows by Tiffany
458(4)
Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel
462(12)
Antoine Bourdelle
474(2)
Aristide Maillol
476(8)
Nature and Idea - Maillol's sculptural conceptions
478(6)
Joseph Bernard and Medardo Rosso
484(2)
The Nabis
486(16)
The artists and their makers - famous art dealers in Paris
496(6)
Appendix 502(2)
Biographies of the artists 504(27)
Time chart 531(5)
Glossary 536(18)
Theory of color 554(10)
References 564(2)
Index of works 566(6)
Picture and map sources 572

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