Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light
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By Alexandra Murphy, Richard Rand, Brian T. Allen, James Ganz, and Alexis Goodin
Few artists of the nineteenth century created works as subtly evocative, as socially poignant, and as artistically influential as Jean-François Millet. This book examines Millet’s technical and creative achievement, focusing on his rarely seen pastels, watercolors, and drawings, considering them as independent works of art, as procedural steps toward paintings, and as important elements in his finished pictures. The authors explore the ways that Millet reinvented his art and reshaped the course of nineteenth-century painting through his shift away from idealized nudes of the academic tradition to nudes in a real world, his confrontation with the physical landscape of work, and his perception of light and weather conditions that altered the landscape. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition that opened at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in June 1999, and traveled to the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
152 pages, 9 x 11 inches
85 color and 14 black-and-white illustrations
Hardcover
1999
Published in association with Yale University Press
To learn more about Clark publications, click here.
Few artists of the nineteenth century created works as subtly evocative, as socially poignant, and as artistically influential as Jean-François Millet. This book examines Millet’s technical and creative achievement, focusing on his rarely seen pastels, watercolors, and drawings, considering them as independent works of art, as procedural steps toward paintings, and as important elements in his finished pictures. The authors explore the ways that Millet reinvented his art and reshaped the course of nineteenth-century painting through his shift away from idealized nudes of the academic tradition to nudes in a real world, his confrontation with the physical landscape of work, and his perception of light and weather conditions that altered the landscape. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition that opened at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in June 1999, and traveled to the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
152 pages, 9 x 11 inches
85 color and 14 black-and-white illustrations
Hardcover
1999
Published in association with Yale University Press
To learn more about Clark publications, click here.