Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau

by Greg Thomas

In Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France , Greg Thomas sets forth a new ecological model of landscape painting, in which the process of art is seen to mimic the creative processes silently at work in the environment around us. Developing an aesthetics of place with implications for the entirety of nineteenth-century art, Thomas focuses specifically and with engaging exactitude on the landscapes of Barbizon painter Th odore Rousseau. These paintings--dreams...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059462
• ISBN13: 9780691059464
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"