Impressionism and the French Landscape
/My book pick this week, like last week, is from an exhibition: A Day in the country : impressionism and the French landscape presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago and Réunion des musées nationaux (France) as part of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival. I selected 3 images as samples….encourage browsing of the whole book. The images it contains are well work a look!
On a side history note – the exhibit and its catalogue were evidently funded by a major grant from IBM Corporation; I had joined the company in 1983…so I feel an added connection to this book and the exhibition it documents.
The availability of these exhibition catalogs on Internet Archive provides a life to an exhibit long after the contents are scattered…maybe not available for viewing publicly at all. I am grateful that institutions are making the altruistic decision to provide the books in electronic form when the physical books are no longer in print. My strategy of buying exhibition books as part of my experience of a museum is still around (although I haven’t been to any exhibitions during the pandemic!); I might buy the electronic version if one were available…and particularly if they were delivered in a form that they could be ‘played’ in slideshow mode.
