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OverviewGustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collected paintings; cultivated and collected rare orchids; designed and tended his gardens; and engaged in local politics. Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter presents the first comprehensive account of Caillebotte’s manifold activities. It presents a completely new critical interpretation of Caillebotte’s broad career that highlights the singular salience of ‘work’, and which intersects histories and theories of visual culture, ideology, and psychoanalysis. Where the recent art historical ‘rediscovery’ of Caillebotte offers multiple narratives of his identification with working men, this book goes beyond them towards excavating what his work was in its own terms. Born to an haut bourgeois milieu in which he was never completely comfortable and assailed by traumatic familial bereavements, Caillebotte adopted and adapted the ideologically normative category of work for his own purposes, deconstructing its ostensibly class-determinate parameters in order to bridge the chasm of his social alienation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Samuel Raybone (Associate Lecturer, Aberystwyth University, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts Weight: 0.696kg ISBN: 9781501339943ISBN 10: 150133994 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction Part One 1. Work 2. Collecting Part Two 3. Philately and Photography 4. Philatelic Impressionism Part Three 5. Classed Corporeality and Naturalist Signification 6. Between Caillebotte and Zola Part Four 7. Working as Caillebotte in Petit Gennevilliers Conclusion Endnotes BibliographyReviewsThis study reassesses Gustave Caillebotte's career in its entirety, bringing into play notably his intensive pursuit of philately and his ambitious garden designs. Hardly noticed in previous accounts, these two concerns are brilliantly anatomized and shown to be integral aspects of the artist's creative life. * Stephen Bann, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK * This study reassesses Gustave Caillebotte's career in its entirety, bringing into play notably his intensive pursuit of philately and his ambitious garden designs. Hardly noticed in previous accounts, these two concerns are brilliantly anatomized and shown to be integral aspects of the artist's creative life. * Stephen Bann, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK * Raybone's excellent, well-researched book on Gustave Caillebotte offers us gripping new readings of the artist's labour in its broadest sense, incorporating not only novel analyses of his art and material practice as a painter, but integrating this aspect of his life more effectively than ever before with his other `work'- as an art collector, pre-eminent philatelist, racing yacht designer and master-sailor, innovative gardener and orchid-breeder. Caillebotte emerges from Raybone's important, thought-provoking study as a more complex and complete personality, and in ways that simultaneously provide us with fresh insights into Impressionism and French society in the period. * Anthea Callen, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * Author InformationSamuel Raybone is Lecturer in Art History at Aberystwyth University, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |