A fresh appraisal of the factors linking the Impressionists by one of the leading twentieth century art historians.
Impressionist Art, 1860-1920: Impressionism in France
I5 15 1956 Elderfield, John. European master paintings from Swiss collections: post- impressionism to World War II: [exhibition] / by John Elderfield; foreword by William Rubin. Published/Created: New York: Museum of Modern Art, c1976.
A new perspective on Impressionist art that offers revealing, fresh interpretations of familiar paintings In this handsome book, a leading authority on Impressionist painting offers a new view of this admired and immensely popular art form.
Without a doubt, this singularity was explained when, shortly before his death, Claude Monet wrote: “I remain sorry to have been the cause of the name given to a group the majority of which did not have anything Impressionist.” In this ...
The Impressionists were scorned by the establishment during their lifetime, yet they are now among the most popular artists of all time. This volume includes the work of some of...
Simply put, the idea of Monet's art as in crisis seems formalist. ... Expressionist artists, critics, and curators in the 1950s and 1960s, among them Clement Greenberg and William Seitz, whose 1960 text on Monet saw wide circulation.
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 ...
Wechsler 1 9X2. and Isaacson 19X2. Art historians first began commenting on this by focusing on specific borrowings, such as Degas's from Daumier, or Manet's from popular illustrations, and subsequently by broader inquiries into the ...
The art of the Impressionists is beloved of experts and non-experts alike. Paul Smith reexamines this popular group of artists in light of recent scholarship on the social context of...
No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously...