Camille Pissarro

by Terence Maloon; With essays by Richard Shiff, Joachim Pissarro, Peter Raissis, a

• ISBN13: 9780300115529
• ISBN10: 0300115520
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Other Distribution

Summary

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only member of the Impressionist group to exhibit in all eight of their exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886. He drafted the Impressionist convention and was the principal organizer of the first exhibition held in 1874. He was a bold and restless experimenter throughout his career, working in a variety of mediums and techniques, including painting, drawing, and printmaking. Pissarro was also regarded as an astute judge of young talent. Cezanne and Gauguin both acknowledged their profound debt to him, and Seurat, Signac and Matisse also benefited from Pissarro's generous encouragement and advice at the start of their careers. This beautiful book is the first to examine closely Pissarro's innovative role in the Impressionist movement and his novel approach to pictorial composition. With 150 stunning color illustrations of many of Pissarro's greatest works, this comprehensive and accessible book includes five essays written by distinguished scholars that analyze the artist's exploration of composition and subject matter, his experiments with color and space, and his turn to Neo-Impressionism toward the end of his career.Camille Pissarroalso describes his relationships to other contemporary artists, his reception by critics at the time, and his significant influence upon Impressionism and modern art.

Author Biography

Terence Maloon is Curator of Special Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at the University of Texas, Austin, has written extensively on Impressionism. Joachim Pissarro, great-grandson of Camille Pissarro, is Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His most recent book is Cézanne & Pissarro: Pioneering Modern Painting, 1865-1885 and is working on a forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Pissarro.  Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, great-great-granddaughter of the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, is an independent art historian who is collaborating with Joachim Pissarro on the forthcoming Pissarro catalogue raisonné. Peter Raissis is Curator of European Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Table of Contents

Pissaro and the picturesque	p. 15
The restless worker	p. 33
Pissarro's neo-impressionism	p. 47
Pissarro and printmaking : an introduction	p. 59
Plates
Early works	p. 74
Towards impressionism	p. 86
Impressionism	p. 98
The impressionist print	p. 112
Late impressionism	p. 134
Neo-impressionism	p. 148
The figure in the landscape	p. 160
City views and industrial landscapes	p. 184
Portraits	p. 206
Pissarro country	p. 218
Pissarro and his critics	p. 225
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