Hardcover
2012 · Philadelphia
by Rishel, Joseph J. (editor)
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/VG. Dust jacket may show minimal wear.. Red-orange cloth, aqua & illustrated dust jacket. 243 pp. Many BW & color illustrations, 2 fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition in Philadelphia, which focused on three monumental paintings: Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ; Paul Cezanne's Large Bathers ; and Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River. Includes other selections that fit into the larger theme of "this inventive period in art history." Accompanying essays: Arcadia 1900 / Joseph J. Rishel -- The Paitner's Arcadia / Charles Dempsey -- Trouble in Paradise / George T. M. Shackelford -- Cezanne, Virgil, Poussin / Joseph J. Rishel -- Re-visioning Arcadia: Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River / Stephanie D'Alessandro -- "Dream the Myth Onwards": Visions of Arcadia in German Expressionist Art / Tanja Pirsig-Marshall.
(Inventory #: 136301)