Pierre Bonnard: The Work of Art, Suspending Time : Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May...

Pierre Bonnard: The Work of Art, Suspending Time : Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May...
ISBN-10
9055446041
ISBN-13
9789055446049
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
359
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Lundion, Uitgeverij
Authors
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Suzanne Pagé, Pierre Bonnard

Description

Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth-century art, Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what it means to be Modern. In having followed a very personal calling--literally and figuratively interior, particularly compared to the work of friends like Matisse--Bonnard created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries'. His recurring themes--the nude (both classical and erotic), the landscape, domestic life, and the self-portrait--evolve with him from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from Paris to the south of France, alive with constant reinvention. Although for Bonnard the subject was always important, his work navigates a sophisticated dialectic between the givens of perception and memory, between the image before our eyes and all that it suggests. This substantial reference includes work from the Hermitage and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, which sponsored its publication. Contributors include Yve-Alain Bois, Sarah Whitfield, and Georges Roque. Photographs from Dina Verny and Henri Cartier-Bresson among others document the era and Bonnard's models as he saw them.

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