In The Gardens Of Impressionism

Author: Clare A.P. Willsdon

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Price : $58.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780500511473
Publisher : thames
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Weight (g) : 2.08
Publication date : 01 November 2004
Dimensions : 310mm X 240mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Clare A.P. Willsdon
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Dewey classification : 758.5
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Pages : 288
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For the first time, this book explores to the full, with dazzling visual accompaniment, the fascinating story of the Impressionist love affair with the new thinking about gardens, their flowers and design, in 19th-century France.

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Clare Willsdon is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Glasgow. Among her previous books is Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940: Image and Meaning - awarded 'Best single-authored book', 2002-3, American Historians of British Art.

1. Flowers of Tradition; 2. Horticulture and Pleinairisme; 3. Private Gardens in Early Impressionism; 4. Painting the Parisian 'Bouquet'; 5. Sunshine, Shadows and Sanctuary; 6. The Social Garden; 7. The Working Garden; 8. Cultivating Inspiration; 9. The Impressionist Garden Beyond France