Those of the earth. The figure of the peasant from Courbet to Van Gogh.
Silvana Editoriale / Courbet Museum| N° d'inventaire | 25869 |
| Format | 21 x 27 |
| Détails | 200 p., 100 illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Milan, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836652266 |
From the brutal and raw portrait of a peasant world in the grip of the most violent passions, painted by the writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) in La Terre (1887), to the lyrical and heroic vision of the "people of the land" in the collection of short stories Ceux de la glèbe (1889) by the Belgian Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913), the contemporary countryside was the object in the second half of the 19th century of the most diverse ideological projections, whether nostalgic, conservative, socialist, progressive or purely aesthetic.
With the emergence of realism and its two main figures, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), painters with rural origins, the peasant theme in the field of fine arts was renewed and became a true phenomenon on a European scale, soon transcending movements. Realists, naturalists, symbolists, modernists or anti-modernists, all set out to depict the peasant, the new central figure of contemporary society.
Through more than 80 works, the exhibition Those of the Earth aims to understand the emergence of this cultural phenomenon, while approaching the intention and the specific perspective of each artist behind the development of the rural world as a pictorial subject.
Summary :
Those of Earth.
A picture of the peasant
Benjamin Foudral
Jean-François Millet: “My peasant nature is becoming more and more pronounced, I believe…”
Marie-Pierre Salé
The Hays by Jules Bastien-Lepage: variations around a naturalist figure
Anna Zsófia Kovács
A Postcard Peasantry. Ethnology, Picturesqueness, and Regionalism in the Belle Époque
Bertrand Tillier
In Pursuit of Happiness: The 19th-Century Avatars of the Golden Age Myth
Elinor Myara Kelif
Represent / multiply
Noel Barbe
THOSE OF THE EARTH
The figure of the peasant from Courbet to Van Gogh
Introduction
I. And art became people…
II. Peasant modernities or anti-modernities
III. From subject to symbol, the gesture of the sower
IV. This is the way. The hegemony of rural naturalism
V. In times of harmony, the rural world as a refuge
APPENDICES
Selected bibliography
From the brutal and raw portrait of a peasant world in the grip of the most violent passions, painted by the writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) in La Terre (1887), to the lyrical and heroic vision of the "people of the land" in the collection of short stories Ceux de la glèbe (1889) by the Belgian Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913), the contemporary countryside was the object in the second half of the 19th century of the most diverse ideological projections, whether nostalgic, conservative, socialist, progressive or purely aesthetic.
With the emergence of realism and its two main figures, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), painters with rural origins, the peasant theme in the field of fine arts was renewed and became a true phenomenon on a European scale, soon transcending movements. Realists, naturalists, symbolists, modernists or anti-modernists, all set out to depict the peasant, the new central figure of contemporary society.
Through more than 80 works, the exhibition Those of the Earth aims to understand the emergence of this cultural phenomenon, while approaching the intention and the specific perspective of each artist behind the development of the rural world as a pictorial subject.
Summary :
Those of Earth.
A picture of the peasant
Benjamin Foudral
Jean-François Millet: “My peasant nature is becoming more and more pronounced, I believe…”
Marie-Pierre Salé
The Hays by Jules Bastien-Lepage: variations around a naturalist figure
Anna Zsófia Kovács
A Postcard Peasantry. Ethnology, Picturesqueness, and Regionalism in the Belle Époque
Bertrand Tillier
In Pursuit of Happiness: The 19th-Century Avatars of the Golden Age Myth
Elinor Myara Kelif
Represent / multiply
Noel Barbe
THOSE OF THE EARTH
The figure of the peasant from Courbet to Van Gogh
Introduction
I. And art became people…
II. Peasant modernities or anti-modernities
III. From subject to symbol, the gesture of the sower
IV. This is the way. The hegemony of rural naturalism
V. In times of harmony, the rural world as a refuge
APPENDICES
Selected bibliography