Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market

An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France

By:

Simon Kelly

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Hardback

Series:

Contextualizing Art Markets

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The 19th century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter, Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), and this market, exploring the constellation of patrons, art dealers and critics who surrounded the artist. It argues for the pioneering role of Rousseau, his patrons and his public in the origins of the modern art market, and, in so doing, shifts attention away from the more traditional focus on the novel careers of the Impressionists and their supporters. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book provides new insight into the role of the modern artist as professional. It provides a new understanding of the complex iconographical and formal choices within Rousseau’s work, rediscovering the original radical charge that once surrounded the artist’s work and led to extensive and peculiarly modern tensions with the market place.

Author Biography:

Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA.

Release date Australia

June 3rd, 2021

Author

Simon Kelly

Series

Contextualizing Art Markets

Pages

272

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

8 colour & 64 bw illus

ISBN-13

9781501343797

Product ID

32455221

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