The American Impressionists in the Garden
May Brawley Hill
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Description for The American Impressionists in the Garden
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, 44 colour plates, 13 colour illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ACVT; AFC; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 703.
At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as artistic motifs as well as a growing appreciation of the art of gardening itself. The range of color and the variation in form and silhouette made the garden a compelling subject for a large number of painters inclined toward the Impressionist style. Early twentieth-century America witnessed a mania for the garden, and the interest in the art of gardening dominated many aspects of domestic life. Publications and articles offered gardening advice for Americans, while also asserting that the art of gardening paralleled the art of ... Read more
At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as artistic motifs as well as a growing appreciation of the art of gardening itself. The range of color and the variation in form and silhouette made the garden a compelling subject for a large number of painters inclined toward the Impressionist style. Early twentieth-century America witnessed a mania for the garden, and the interest in the art of gardening dominated many aspects of domestic life. Publications and articles offered gardening advice for Americans, while also asserting that the art of gardening paralleled the art of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516923
SKU
V9780826516923
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Ref
99-15
About May Brawley Hill
Trained as an art historian with publications in American nineteenth-century art, May Brawley Hill, as she puts it, ""experienced a garden conversion twenty years ago and determined to learn all I could about such a neglected and compelling branch of the fine arts."" Her most recent book is On Foreign Soil: Gardens of Americans Abroad.
Reviews for The American Impressionists in the Garden
"At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as artistic motifs as well as a growing appreciation of the art of gardening itself. The range of color and the variation in form and silhouette made the garden a compelling subject for a large number of painters inclined toward the Impressionist style. Early twentieth-century America ... Read more