Impressionism Transformed

Impressionism Transformed

Author: Susan E. Strickler

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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A new look at a nationally admired American impressionist painter and teacher.


Impressionism

Impressionism

Author: Véronique Bouruet Aubertot

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 2080203207

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A comprehensive, accessible, and richly illustrated guide to impressionism—the perennially popular artistic movement that led to the radical renewal of Western art. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Rodin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and the other Impressionist artists burst onto the art scene in the second half of the nineteenth century, creating shock waves with their rebellious rejection of the academy’s strict rules dictating subject matter, style, and even color. Their art, labeled impressionism, coincided with the Industrial Revolution, when the world was suddenly jettisoned into modernity. The young artists who gave rise to the movement confronted public disdain and oppression in Europe, but were applauded overseas for their radically contemporary aesthetic. This complete and accessible guide renews and refreshes conventional views on impressionism by placing this seminal moment in art in its historical context. Emblematic masterpieces are examined with a focus on each detail, allowing a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artworks. Biographies of all the major artists of the movement provide insight about their life and significant works, and period photographs illustrate this incredibly rich and exciting time in art history. Organized thematically, the guide includes chapters on photography, fashion, female impressionists, exhibitions, galleries and dealers, writers, the movement’s influence on later artists, and recurrent impressionist themes including leisure activities, the garden, the city, and industry. Replete with illustrations and numerous firsthand accounts and quotations, this book recounts a story of emancipation.


Impressionism

Impressionism

Author: Robert L. Herbert

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0300050836

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Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings


Impressionism

Impressionism

Author: Anne Distel

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0870990977

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Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Author: Mary Tompkins Lewis

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 052094044X

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The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Readers are invited to consider the profound issues and penetrating questions that lie beneath this perennially popular body of work as the contributors examine the art world of late nineteenth-century France—including detailed looks at Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The authors offer fascinating new perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts. They explore these painters' pictorial and market strategies, the critical reception and modern criteria the paintings engendered, and the movement's historic role in the formation of an avant-garde tradition. Their research reflects the wealth of new documents, critical approaches, and scholarly exhibitions that have fundamentally altered our understanding of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. These essays, several of which have previously been familiar only to scholars, provide instructive models of in-depth critical analysis and of the competing art historical methods that have crucially reshaped the field. Contributors: Carol Armstrong, T. J. Clark, Stephen F. Eisenman, Tamar Garb, Nicholas Green, Robert L. Herbert, John House, Mary Tompkins Lewis, Michel Melot, Linda Nochlin, Richard Shiff, Debora Silverman, Paul Tucker, Martha Ward


Impressionism and the Modern Landscape

Impressionism and the Modern Landscape

Author: James H. Rubin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-04-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0520248015

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The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of Impressionist celebrations of modernity to include what might be called Impressionism's "other landscape" and proposes that in the Impressionists' effort to forge a modern landscape art, those signs of modernity defined their vision most clearly."--BOOK JACKET.


Color in the Age of Impressionism

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Author: Laura Anne Kalba

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 0271079789

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This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art. Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.


Literary Impressionism

Literary Impressionism

Author: Marlies Kronegger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780808403654

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A scholarly introduction to Impressionism in literature, with attention to Impressionism in painting.


American Impressionism & Realism

American Impressionism & Realism

Author: Helene Barbara Weinberg

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1876509996

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An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Realism in the Age of Impressionism

Realism in the Age of Impressionism

Author: Marnin Young

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0300208324

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The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, spearheading a short-lived revival of the Realist practices that had dominated at mid-century and advocating slowness in practice, subject matter, and beholding. In this illuminating book, Marnin Young looks closely at five works by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred-Philippe Roll, Jean-Franocois Raffaeelli, and James Ensor, artists who shared a concern with painting and temporality that is all but forgotten today, having been eclipsed by the ideals of Impressionism. Young's highly original study situates later Realism for the first time within the larger social, political, and economic framework and argues for its centrality in understanding the development of modern art.