Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 - Hardcover

Thomson, Richard; Rapetti, Rodolphe; Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria Von; Bakker, Nienke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050023891X ISBN 13: 9780500238912

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2012

Synopsis

A revelatory collection of Symbolist landscapes by Gauguin, van Gogh, Munch, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Strindberg, and more

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by the Symbolists, the innovative movement whose artists took imaginative and emotional approaches to painting and embraced themes like music, nationalism, science, and modernity. The book focuses on major artists of the avant-garde such as Gauguin, van Gogh, Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, and also showcases other inventive artists from throughout Europe such as Hammershoi, Hodler, Khnopff, and Gallen-Kallela, who are set alongside the visionary British artistry of Crane, Leighton, Watts, and Millais. The works illustrated here offer a range of poetic and suggestive interpretations of nature from the period 1880–1910, with essays by acknowledged experts in the field providing a new chapter in the history of landscape painting. 138 color illustrations

About this title

About the Author

Richard Thomson has been Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh since 1996.

Rodolphe Rapetti is General Curator of Heritage and Associate Researcher at the Institut national de l’histoire de l’art in Paris.

Frances Fowle is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery.

Nienke Bakker is Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 050023891X
• ISBN 13: 9780500238912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Fowle Frances