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Patrick Geddes: The French Connection

Patrick Geddes: The French Connection

Murdo MacDonald
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The charismatic Patrick Geddes is a key figure in Scotland's intellectual and cultural history. Botanist, sociologist and pioneering town planner, he was also deeply interested in art and a confirmed Francophile. Many of his formative ideas were French in origin. During the 1890s Geddes invited French artists and intellectuals to take part in his progressive Summer Meetings of Art and Science in Edinburgh and to contribute to his seasonal journal The Evergreen. Aware of the revival of mural painting in Paris, he commissioned decorations in a style influenced by avant-garde French art. He was active at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, and in Montpellier, where he established the College des Ecossais at the end of his life.

Five essays explore the network of artists and intellectuals - both French and Scottish - that Geddes gathered around him in Edinburgh in the 1890s. They examine in depth the work of artists in Geddes's circle, including John Duncan and Charles Mackie, and their links with the work of French artists such as Serusier, Vuillard and Lucien Pissarro. Finally the book discusses Geddes's contacts with French anarchists and intellectuals, analysing the particular international encounters he made in Paris in 1900. The publication includes abstracts in English and French and a chronology. The contributors are Dr Elizabeth Cumming, Dr Frances Fowle, Dr Belinda Thomson, Prof Sian Reynolds, and Prof. Murdo MacDonald
Language
English
Pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publisher
White Cockade Publishing
Release
March 31, 2004
ISBN
1873487118
ISBN 13
9781873487112

Patrick Geddes: The French Connection

Murdo MacDonald
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The charismatic Patrick Geddes is a key figure in Scotland's intellectual and cultural history. Botanist, sociologist and pioneering town planner, he was also deeply interested in art and a confirmed Francophile. Many of his formative ideas were French in origin. During the 1890s Geddes invited French artists and intellectuals to take part in his progressive Summer Meetings of Art and Science in Edinburgh and to contribute to his seasonal journal The Evergreen. Aware of the revival of mural painting in Paris, he commissioned decorations in a style influenced by avant-garde French art. He was active at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, and in Montpellier, where he established the College des Ecossais at the end of his life.

Five essays explore the network of artists and intellectuals - both French and Scottish - that Geddes gathered around him in Edinburgh in the 1890s. They examine in depth the work of artists in Geddes's circle, including John Duncan and Charles Mackie, and their links with the work of French artists such as Serusier, Vuillard and Lucien Pissarro. Finally the book discusses Geddes's contacts with French anarchists and intellectuals, analysing the particular international encounters he made in Paris in 1900. The publication includes abstracts in English and French and a chronology. The contributors are Dr Elizabeth Cumming, Dr Frances Fowle, Dr Belinda Thomson, Prof Sian Reynolds, and Prof. Murdo MacDonald
Language
English
Pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publisher
White Cockade Publishing
Release
March 31, 2004
ISBN
1873487118
ISBN 13
9781873487112

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