Impressionist art, 1860-1920 vol. 1 Impressionism in France

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This two volume set presents the full scope of Impressionist painting. It outlines the history of Impressionism in France, addressing not only the work of the acknowledged masters, but also that of such lesser known artists such as Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot or Lucien Pissarro. The set also examines the Impressionist movements that emerged in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern and South-East Europ...

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ISBN:

9783836522861
3836522861

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1 volume (400 pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 33 cm

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Impressionism
Impressionism in France
Impressionism in Europe and North America

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Issued in slip case
v. 1. Impressionism in France / by Peter H. Feist -- v. 2. Impressionism in Europe and North America / by Beatrice von Bismarck ... [et al.]
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

vol. 1: 1. Appraising Impressionism
2. The prehistory of Impressionism. English antecedents
Art and reality
Art in Paris around 1860
3. A new generation. The salon and rejection
Establishing a position
Impressionism
4. Getting there. War and dispersal
The barrier of mistrust
5. A group show and a name
6. From self-confidence to doubt. Evolving a new style
Debating content and strategies
7. Neo-Impressionism and post-Impressionism. The colour of light : pointillism
The synthetist moment
Light for the world
The pain of pleasure
8. The fruits of persistence. Success and disappointment at the end of the century
A harmony parallel to nature
The wisdom of age
9. "The masters will last"
vol. 2: 10. Painting in the Netherlands and Belgium in the Impressionist period. Tradition and modernity : the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists
Impressionism in Belgium
11. "The light of freedom" : Impressionism in Germany. German and French Impressionism
A brief history of German Impressionism
12. The new reality : Impressionism in Scandinavia. Scandinavian artists in Paris
The encounter with Impressionism
Artists' colonies
Plein-air painting
Nature and civilization
Man and nature
Effects of light
Plein-airisme and the interior
Point of view and composition
The sense of movement
"La vie moderne"
13. Homelands and Europe : east and southeast European Impressionists. Russia
Poland
Bohemia and Moravia
Hungary
Romania
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia
14. Impressionism and Italian painting in the latter half of the 19th century
15. Painting in Spain in the Impressionist period
16. The British response to French Impressionism
17. Impressionism in North America. Origins and principles of American Impressionism
The "European" Americans
The evolution of a distinct American Impressionism
Establishment and dissemination : the second generation of American Impressionists
The 20th-century aftermath of Impressionism

Control Number:

898520

Other Authors:

Bismarck, Beatrice von
Feist, Peter H. (Peter Heinz), 1928-
Walther, Ingo F

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