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Author Nochlin, Linda.

Title Realism and tradition in art, 1848-1900 : sources and documents / Linda Nochlin
Published Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1966]
©1966

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Description x, 189 pages : facsimile ; 23 cm
Series Sources and documents in the history of art series
Sources and documents in the history of art series.
Contents 1. Traditional art : its supporters and its critics. -- Achille Fould : 1800-1867 ; Address to the prize winners of the 1857 salon -- Thomas Couture : 1815-1879 ; Conversation on art methods -- William-Adolphe Bouguereau : 1825-1905 ; Address to the the Institute de France -- Théophile Thoré [W. Bürger, pseudonym] : 1807-1869 ; The decadence of classical painting -- [Jules Antoine] Castagnary : 1830-1888 ; A critique of three Venuses -- Edmond and Jules de Concourt : 1822-1896, 1830-1870 ; The death of art in the 19th century ; Gavarni expresses his opinion on art and life -- Eugène Fromentin : 1820-1876 ; A critic's program ; A letter to a young artist -- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux : 1827-1875 ; The evolution of "The dance" -- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes : 1824-1898 ; An allegory of letters, science, and the arts -- 2. Realism and Naturalism in France. -- Gustave Courbet : 1819-1877 ; The realist manifesto ; Art cannot be taught -- Champfleury [Jules Françoise Félix Husson] : 1821-1889 ; A letter to Madame Sand about M. Courbet -- Max Buchon : 1818-1869 ; "As an apple-tree produces apples-" -- [Jules Antoine] Castagnary : 1830-1888 ; The importance of Courbet -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : 1809-1865 ; Concerning the principles of art and it ssoial destiny -- Théophile Thoré : 1807-1869 ; Courbet and Millet -- Jean-Françoise Millet : 1814-1869 ; A letter to Thoré ; First thoughts for the Letter to Thoré ; The "Man with the hoe" ; Theocritus and Burns -- Théophile Thoré ; On the "Salon des refusés" -- [Jules Antoine] Castagnary ; 1863 : The triumph of naturalism -- Edouard Manet : 1832-1883 ; Théophile Thoré : an appreciation of Mamet in the 1868 salon ; Emile Zola : A new style in painting ; Maet's statements about art ; A letter about Velasquez and Goya from Manet to Fantin-Latour from Madrid in 1865 ; Reasons for a private exhibition ; Adverse criticism of Manet -- Eugène Boudin : 1824-1870 ; One must paint the subjects of one's time ; Excerpts from Boudin's notebooks -- Frédéric Bazille : 1841-1870 ; Letters to his parents -- 3. England : the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends. -- Fors Madox Brown : 1821-1893 ; "The pretty baa-lambs" ("Summer heat") ; The "Last of England" ; A description of "Work" ; Description of a landscape -- William Holman Hunt : 1827-1910 ; Raphael and Pre-Raphaelitism ; A trip to Paris and Belgium ; A harsh review of the Pre-Raphaelites in The times ; A consideration of technical procedures ; "The light of the world " ; "The awakening conscience" -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti : 1828-1882 ; The Pre-Raphaelite immortals ; Van Eyck and Memling ; "Ecce ancilla Domini" (The Annunciation") ; Two poems -- John Everett Millais : 1829-1896 ; Letter about "Before the Flood" -- John Ruskin : 1819-1900 ; A defense of the Pre-Raphaelites ; A second letter to The times about the Pre-Raphaelites ; Holman Hunt's "Light of the world" ; Holman Hunt's "Awakening conscience" ; Advice to Rossetti -- William Morris : 1834-1896 ; The aims of art -- 4. Italy and Germany. -- Giovanni Fattori : 1825-1908 ; Letter to a group of pupils ; Recollections of youth -- Adriano Cecioni : 1836-1866 ; The style of the "Macchiaioli" ; Cecioni's sculpture and painting -- Anselm Feuerbach : 1829-1880 ; Letters to his mother -- Arnold Böchlin : 1827-1901 ; Letter to Colonel Merian-Iselin -- Wilhelm Leibl : 1844-1900 ; Letter to Baurat U. Wingen ; Letters to his parents ; Letters to his mother about :three peasant women in a village church" -- Hans Thoma : 1839-1924 ; A letter to Emil Lugo -- Max Liebermann : 1847-1935 ; A confession of artisitic faith -- Conrad Fiedler : 1841-1895 ; On judging works of art -- Adolf von Hildebrand : 1847-1921 ; The problem of form in painting and sculpture -- Ferdinand Hodler : 1853-1918 ; The theory of parallelism
Summary "Through a broad selection of familiar central documents and less well-known ones, the author has focused upon the problems faced by innovators in all realms of thought and action in the middle of the 19th century. This book brings a fresh approach to the struggle, in both art and politics, between the established order and the forces of change."--Cover
Analysis Art, Modern
Naturalism in art
Realism in art
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes
Subject Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History -- Sources.
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Sources.
Naturalism in art.
Realism in art.
LC no. 66023609
ISBN 9070054345