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Public parks, private gardens : Paris to Provence / Colta Ives ; edited by Cynthia Clark and Emily Walter.

By: Ives, Colta Feller [author.].
Contributor(s): Clark, Cynthia [editor.] | Walter, Emily [editor.] | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) [issuing body,, host institution.].
Publisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]Description: 204p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781588395849 (hardcover).Subject(s): Parks in art -- Exhibitions | Gardens in art -- Exhibitions | Landscape painting, French -- France -- Paris -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Landscape painting, French -- France -- Provence -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Exhibitions | Post-impressionism (Art) -- France -- ExhibitionsGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: The transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era's great Impressionist artists. This exhibition includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cezanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, who painted parks and gardens as part of contemporary life. The author provides new insights into these works and that specificaly creative period in France's history.
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Published in conjunction with "Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 6 through July 29, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era's great Impressionist artists. This exhibition includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cezanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, who painted parks and gardens as part of contemporary life. The author provides new insights into these works and that specificaly creative period in France's history.

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