Musee D'Orsay

by Gartner, Peter J.; Padberg, Martinataff (Con); Sander, Birgit (Con); Stukenbrock, Christiane (Con)

• ISBN13: 9783829026710
• ISBN10: 3829026714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Konemann

Table of Contents

Plans of museum	8	(4)
Paris railroad station provides home for 19th-century art	12	(16)
Musee d'Orsay statistics (with opening hours)	26	(2)
Ground floor (plans pp. 30--33)	28	(144)
Sculpture from Rude to Carpeaux	34	(16)
Expression of Despair - the ``Ugolino'' theme in the hands of Carpeaux and Rodin	40	(6)
Political allegory on a large scale	46	(4)
Painting from Gerome to Meissonier	50	(18)
Scandals, in fighting, and intrigues - the ``Salon'' and the ``Refuses''	54	(14)
Honore Daumier	68	(6)
Light and shade - mothers portrayed in art	70	(2)
Daumier's terracotta busts - political physiognomics	72	(2)
The Barbizon School	74	(16)
The Provinces take Paris by storm	86	(4)
Gustave Courbet	90	(11)
In the eye of the beholder	96	(5)
Puvis de Chavannes and Moreau	101	(3)
Early Degas	104	(4)
Early Manet	108	(12)
In defence of modernism - Emile Zola, art critic	110	(6)
A classical goddess and her modern sister	116	(4)
Bazille and early Renoir	120	(5)
Painter friends - portraits of Renoir and Bazille	122	(3)
Early Monet	125	(13)
A summer picnic	126	(4)
Portraits of ladies of the Second Empire	130	(2)
Alternative ways of reaching the public - the first group exhibition by the impressionists	132	(6)
Henri Fantin-Latour	138	(2)
Seascapes and beach landscapes	140	(4)
Orientalism	144	(10)
``...we are now Orientalists'' (Victor Hugo, 1829) - Oriental trends and Oriental studies	148	(6)
Decorative arts and historicism	154	(8)
Architectural models	160	(2)
International arts and crafts	162	(10)
Upper level (plans pp. 174--177)	172	(220)
The Moreau-Nelaton Collection	178	(14)
Historical painting and modernity	180	(8)
Charles Baudelaire - discoverer of modernity	188	(4)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler	192	(2)
Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt	194	(8)
On women painters and other oddities - women painters in Paris	198	(4)
Gustave Caillebotte	202	(2)
Edgar Degas	204	(14)
The bohemian life - the cafe as a meeting place for artists	212	(6)
Degas the sculptor	218	(5)
Edouard Manet	223	(7)
An impressionistic triad	228	(2)
Camille Pissarro	230	(5)
Alfred Sisley	235	(3)
Auguste Renoir	238	(10)
New steps	244	(4)
Claude Monet	248	(22)
Water, wind, and sun	250	(4)
The railroad station - the cathedral of the 19th century	254	(8)
At the edge of the visible - mountain landscapes by Monet and Hodler	262	(4)
The loss of the original	266	(4)
Vincent van Gogh	270	(26)
The long road to fame - Vincent van Gogh and his heritage	276	(6)
From Naturalism to Expressionism	282	(6)
Places of retreat - in search of the artist's personal style	288	(8)
Paul Cezanne	296	(18)
The ``realization'' of nature in paintings the Bathers series	302	(10)
Colorful pictures for the show booth	312	(2)
Degas' pastels	314	(6)
``Les Japons chez nous'' - Japan comes to Paris	316	(4)
The late work of Monet and Renoir	320	(7)
Odilon Redon	327	(7)
Fin de siecle - the pleasure in the decline of one's own age	330	(4)
The Gachet Collection	334	(4)
Henri Rousseau	338	(4)
The Pont-Aven School	342	(8)
Gauguin in the Tropics	350	(13)
Timelessness and mythical experience of the world - Gauguin's South Sea paintings	356	(4)
Stocktaking - two self-portraits	360	(3)
Neo-Impressionism	363	(11)
Purity of the color spectrum as the aim of painting - Seurat, Signac, and neo-Impressionism	368	(6)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	374	(10)
A place for art (history) - Montmartre between social misery and new beginnings in art	376	(8)
Small-format paintings	384	(8)
Hunger for pictures - from panorama to photography	386	(6)
Mezzanine - (plans pp.394--397)	392	(110)
Examples of academic paintings and sculptures	398	(10)
The Festival Hall of the Hotel d'Orsay	402	(6)
The Franco-Prussian War	408	(12)
``Nouveau Paris - the capital of Europe''	412	(8)
Naturalism	420	(12)
Panorama of the age - the world exhibitions	426	(6)
Europe around 1900	432	(8)
Art Nouveau in France and Belgium	440	(22)
Commercial art and architecture	444	(14)
Glass windows by Tiffany	458	(4)
Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel	462	(12)
Antoine Bourdelle	474	(2)
Aristide Maillol	476	(8)
Nature and Idea - Maillol's sculptural conceptions	478	(6)
Joseph Bernard and Medardo Rosso	484	(2)
The Nabis	486	(16)
The artists and their makers - famous art dealers in Paris	496	(6)
Appendix	502	(2)
Biographies of the artists	504	(27)
Time chart	531	(5)
Glossary	536	(18)
Theory of color	554	(10)
References	564	(2)
Index of works	566	(6)
Picture and map sources	572