Putting Monet and Rembrandt into words : Pierre Loti's recreation and theorization of Claude Monet's impressionism and Rembrandt's landscapes in literature / by Richard M. Berrong

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-469-61365-9

ISBN : 1-469-61365-4

EAN : 9781469613659

Loti -- Pierre -- 1850-1923

Monet -- Claude -- 1840-1926

Rembrandt -- 1606-1669

Impressionnisme (littérature)

Paysage -- Dans la littérature

Paysage -- Dans l'art

Classification Dewey : 843/.8

Collection : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures / founder Urban Tigner Holmes ; editor Stirling Haig / Chapel Hill (C.) : University of North Carolina , 1973-

Résumé / Abstract : Examining certain of Loti's important novels, this study shows how he managed to reproduce with words what Monet was doing in oils. It also shows how the author came to theorize about the effects of Impressionism on the reader-viewer. Finally, it demonstrates how and why, in one of his last novels, Loti undertook to reproduce the style of one of the painters most admired by Monet: Rembrandt van Rijn, whom the nineteenth-century French rediscovered in part because they could present his sketchy biography as a demonstration of many of the things liberal art historians and painters believed the ideal artist should be. (source site de l'éditeur)