Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia Hardcover – February 4, 2016

It's rare to find an art book that does justice to the artist's work. This book is excellently curated with fantastic reproductions of Bonnard's work.

Beautiful pictures, drawings. It was a gift for my BF. He loved it!!

There are many color reproductions of works I had not seen before, and some seen only in black and white. Some of the repros seem a bit pale. I say this having seen his large retrospective in New York a few years ago. The book also indulges in something MOMA would seemingly never do: splitting a horizontal repro between two pages so you cannot see the image flat as a rectangular whole. I hate that practice...very disrespectful!The text is mediocre, abounding in hazy generalities and multiple cultural references, especially French ones. If you have read the MOMA catalog by Elderfield and Whitfield, or any other penetrating studies of his work you will be disappointed.There is a voluminous section on Bonnard's photography, which for me does not add to an appreciation of his paintings. A section on his drawings would have been more appropriate. The works are not in anything like chronological order, and the authors/sponsors seem proud of this. For me this is not helpful. In short the organization of topics seems random and scattershot. I would give it 3 stars were it not for the glory of his work.

It tells about his entire painting career but it didn't show some of my favorite paintings of his

It seems a very complete book.

Beautiful book, a must for Bonnard fans

Awesome book very pleased.

So many of the reproductions seemed radically different from those in other books, I really have nothing to say until I see the exhibition. Generally speaking the most recent publications have the best color in regard to accuracy due to digital photography. The text is excellent and varied with several authors so I do have high hopes. It does seem a rather unusual gathering of works as well, with many seemingly minor pieces. This is of course because it is basically an exhibition catalog.