The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso.

Leicht berieben, innen sehr gut und sauber / Slightly rubbed, inside very good and clean - Artists continued to discover and explore the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This stunning book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists of the turn of the century put this "wondrous new medium" to use in their painting and sculpture and shows how they enfolded photographs into their creative processes. -- Paintings, sculpture, and photographs by Bonnard, Brancusi, Degas, Gauguin, Khnopff, Moreau, Mucha, Munch, Picasso, Rodin, Rosso, von Stuck, Vallotton, and Vuillard are discussed and reproduced. The book also includes an array of photographs by great masters ( Steichen, Nadar, Muybridge ) and lesser-known figures. -- This book offers an alternative account of the place of photography in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art history. -- In contrast to previous investigations, which have tended to align photography and realism, this book situates the photograph at the heart of the Symbolist aesthetic. While the role photography played in their creative processes varied greatly, many of these artists shared an aesthetic vision that differed from those of previous art movements and marked a radical change in the turn-of-the-century perception of reality. Bringing to light what sometimes lay hidden from view, technological advancements in photography such as x-ray, microscopic, and chronophotography challenged the late nineteenth-century notion that photography was no more than a mechanical tool. Though many of the artists in this exhibition publicly renounced photography, each engaged in a highly creative dialogue with the medium. -- The book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition opens in October 1999 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, followed by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, in 2000. -- -- BONNARD -- BRANCUSI -- DEGAS -- GAUGUIN -- KHNOPFF -- MOREAU -- MUCHA -- MUNCH -- PICASSO -- RODIN -- ROSSO -- VON STUCK -- VALLOTTON -- VUILLARD. ISBN 9780300081688