Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts
by Herbert, Robert L
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300081367
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081367
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Cloth, xiv, 278 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "This book shows Auguste Renoir in an entirely new light, revealing an artist far more complex and thoughtful than previously believed. Seven unknown and unpublished texts written by Renoir, along with four other writings once published but now largely forgotten, are presented here in both French and English. They identify Renoir as an impassioned critic of architecture, architectural decoration, and the education of artists. These surprising texts were written in 1883-84, when Renoir hoped to found an exhibition society grouping all the crafts, and around 1910, when he prepared several drafts of a preface to a French translation of Cennino Cennini's medieval treatise on the arts. Robert L. Herbert has uncovered Renoir's 'Grammar of Art,' long believed lost, and has disproved the idea that his reading of Cennini was related to his trip to Italy in 1881. Renoir provides a walking tour of Paris with abundant references to specific buildings exhibiting the Second Empire architecture he found so despicable. He examines academic art, modern industry, and how together they undermine the values of craft and individuality. And he insists that good art like nature never achieves perfect geometry or symmetry but is unregimented, 'natural.' Herbert discusses Renoir's aesthetic in the context of the flow of ideas on the decorative arts at the time and reassesses the artist in the light of these lively rediscovered writings. / Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. He is also the author of Monet on the Normandy Coast." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts
- Author
- Herbert, Robert L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300081367
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081367
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 7. Late 19th Century; European / French; Movements / Impressionism;
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