“RUSTIQUE is an artist book that revisits the life and work of French painter Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) through the lens of Swedish-Canadian visual artist Nicola Godman (1989- ). The project is sprung out of a residency at Hôtel Chevillon, a former Scandinavian artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing, France. Barbizon, the village Millet lived and died, is located 20 km away from there. The book interweaves the life and work of Millet with Godman’s photographs, drawings and personal anecdotes. RUSTIQUE wishes to put forward the artistic gaze towards rural life by artists who themselves are born peasants.”
Photographs of farm life, drawing based on Millet paintings, and anecdotes by the artist, accompanied by a facsimile of the article “CITY VS. COUNTRY: The Rural Image in French Painting from Millet to Gauguin” by Robert L. Herbert (Artforum, 1970), text in English.
Hard cover, 24 x 17,5 cm, 64 pages, ed/250, (Paris) 2022
ISBN: 978-2-9585068-0-3
