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"The Joy of Life investigates the significance of the idyllic in French painting from the early 1890s to World War I, considering a fascinating series of pastoral, mythic, and utopian landscapes. Responding to rapid artistic and social shifts in this period, French artists shaped a dreamlike imagery of mythic community, individual fantasy, and sensual joie de vivre in the midst of mass society. This illustrated study focuses on three exemplary imaginings of idyll: Puvis de Chavannes's decoration for the Paris Hotel de Ville, L'ete, of 1891, Paul Signac's anarchist Au temps d'harmonie of 1895, and Henri Matisse's fauve Bonheur de vivre of 1905-6, each a monumental and ambitious work exhibited publicly in Paris." "Werth weaves together complex analyses of these paintings and others by Manet, Gauguin, Seurat, Cezanne, and less well known artists with a consideration of their critical reception, literary parallels, and the social and cultural milieu. She moves from artistic concerns with tradition and avant-gardism, decoration and social art, composition and figuration to contemporary debates over human origins and social organization."--Jacket.

Matisse, Henri --- Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre --- Signac, Paul --- Utopias in art --- Utopies dans l'art --- Utopieën in de kunst --- Pastoral art --- Painting, French --- Utopias in art. --- 75.037 --- Schilderkunst ; Frankrijk ; eind 19de, begin 20ste eeuw --- Thema's in de schilderkunst ; het idyllische ; het pastorale ; het utopische --- French painting --- Paintings, French --- Groupe Finistère (Group of artists) --- Arcadian art --- Art, Pastoral --- Bucolic art --- Art --- Themes, motives. --- Schilderkunst ; 1900 - 1950 --- France --- Painting [French ] --- 19th century --- Themes, motives --- 20th century

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Painting --- Art styles --- anno 1800-1899 --- France