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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Glasgow
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Chapter title
Petali, profumi e brezze: i giardini di Renoir
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Skira
Book title
Renoir: La Maturità tra Classico e Moderno
ISBN of book
9788861306172
Year of publication
2008
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Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This explores Renoir’s garden imagery in relation to selected historical, cultural, and horticultural factors. Giving particular attention to examples from the 1870s, it shows how these involved a close affinity with Mallarmé’s vision of the ideal within the ‘real’, yet were also in tune with French Republican social concerns, and directly anticipate Renoir’s artistic theories of ‘irregularity’ and ‘decoration’. The chapter argues that Renoir thus treated gardens as ‘affective’ milieux, capable of acting on the mind and emotions; his evocation of their colours, textures and scents served as much to communicate ideas as to delight the senses.
