From Monet to Van Gogh a history of impressionism

DVD 2002

Introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day.

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ISBN:

9781565855885
1565855884

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm)
polychrome
digital optical
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DVD
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Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

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History of impressionism

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Lecturer: Richard Brettell, Univ. of Texas
DVD, region 1

Contents:

pt. I. The realist and the idealist
Napoleon III's Paris
Baudelaire and the definition of modernism
The shock of the new
The painters of modern life
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressions in the countryside
Paris under siege
The first exhibition
Monet and Renoir in Argenteuil
Cézanne and Pissarro in Pontoise
Berthe Morisot
part II. The third exhibition
Edgar Degas
Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Manet's later works
Departures
Paul Gauguin
The final exhibition
The studio of the south : Van Gogh and Gauguin
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Nabis
La fin

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876852

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979156585588

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