9780300055559-0300055552-Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator - Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912

Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator - Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912

ISBN-13: 9780300055559
ISBN-10: 0300055552
Edition: First Edition
Author: Gloria Groom
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover 270 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300055559
ISBN-10: 0300055552
Edition: First Edition
Author: Gloria Groom
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover 270 pages

Summary

Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator - Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912 (ISBN-13: 9780300055559 and ISBN-10: 0300055552), written by authors Gloria Groom, was published by Yale University Press in 1994. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists books. You can easily purchase or rent Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator - Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Edouard Vuillard, one of the great post-impressionists, is especially loved for his small easel paintings that capture the charm and mystery of everyday life. Yet at the same time that he was making his name as an "intimist" artist, he was also creating a number of large-scale canvases, panels, and screens commissioned to decorate the homes of his patrons and friends. Infrequently exhibited, these works were separated from their original settings during Vuillard's lifetime, and they have remained a relatively unknown aspect of his oeuvre.
In this lavishly illustrated study of Vuillard as decorator, Gloria Groom examines the two earliest decades of his career, a period when he produced fifty daring and important large-scale paintings as decoration. Groom discusses these early works and recreates and re-evaluates their original context, providing valuable new information about Vuillard's career, a fresh perspective on his thinking about art, and an entertaining social history of fin-de-siecle Paris.
She describes not only Vuillard's large decorative projects but also the industrialists, bankers, doctors, financiers, journalists, playwrights, and foreign aristocrats who commissioned them, wealthy individuals who came from a social and economic milieu decidedly different from Vuillard's own. Drawing on his patrons' archives and memoirs, and on interviews with their surviving family members, as well as on Vuillard's own private journals, Groom evokes the circumstances and setting of each of these ambitious projects. She situates Vuillard's decorative works within the evolution of his other easel paintings, discusses the notion of "decoration" as a new painting style as well as a complement to the aesthetics of the art nouveau movement, and compares Vuillard's works as a painter-decorator to similar projects undertaken by his contemporaries.

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