This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at Impressionism.
In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden) (fig. 13o) presents Thaxter dressed in a white gown and crowned with her distinctive crescent-moon barrette.38 Surrounded by her kingdom, she rises like Venus Anadyomene from a foam of ...
Examines the great Dutch artist and his work through his letters and painting reproductions.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, December 7, 2016-March 26, 2017.
In April 1874, thirty artists, among them Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne and Degas, participated in an exhibition held in a Paris studio.