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Loading... Impressionist Art 1860 - 1920 (1993)by Ingo F. Walther, Beatrice von Bismarck, Peter H. Feist
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very nice 2 volume set. 1st volume covers Impressionism in France, text about the artist and cultural context. Some captions are French as the titles are French. 2n volume covers the rest of the world's impressionist painters. The pictures in the set are nice full color and many known and not so well known artists are profiled. If you like impressionist works, this is a good reference. no reviews | add a review
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It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to deride this new, impressionistic tendency in art. As with many seminal art movements, the critics got their comeuppance. Today, Impressionism is close contender for the world's favorite period of painting. With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auction prices, and packed museums, the works once dismissed as unfinished or imprecise are now beloved for their atmospheric evocation of time and place, as well as the stylistic flair of rapid brushstrokes upon canvas. Despite its popularity and a whole host of publications, many areas and artists of Impressionism remain inadequately researched. This TASCHEN book fills the gap, raising the profile of unjustly neglected pioneers such as Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro, and Gustave Caillebotte, while exploring the characteristics of Impressionism, from painting en plein air to vivid color contrasts, not only in the movement's native France but also across the rest of Europe and North America. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis -- Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe! No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)759.054The arts Painting History, geographic treatment, biography History 1800-1899 ImpressionismLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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part 2 impressionism in Europe and NorthAmerica
the pictures of the art work are not on the same page as the writing about the artwork. SOOOOOOOO annoying ( )