Impressionism; National Gallery Pocket Guide

by Kathleen Adler

• ISBN13: 9780300076905
• ISBN10: 0300076908
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-08-11
• Publisher: National Gallery London
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Summary

This stunning Pocket Guide discusses the origins, techniques, and development of the Impressionist movement. Kathleen Adler explains why Impressionist artists made a radical departure from the great biblical and mythological narratives that flourished in European art for centuries before them, what technical developments in canvases and oil paints facilitated their painting, and how critics responded to their work.

Table of Contents

Foreword	4	(1)
Introduction: What is Impressionism?	5	(2)
The Beginnings of Impressionism	7	(17)
A typical `Impressionist' painting?
The Paris Salon
Predecessors of Impressionism
Renoir in the 1860s
Monet and Pissarro in London
The Idea of an Impressionist Exhibition	24	(30)
Renoir -- Impressionist
Monet and the railways
Pissarro and Impressionism
Degas and Impressionism
Cezanne and Impressionism
Sisley and Morisot: Two neglected Impressionists
Impressionism in Crisis	54	(20)
Pissarro and the figure
Degas and the figure
Degas, repetition, and the series
Pissarro and the series
Monet and the series
Impressionism's History	74	(5)
Collecting Impressionism
The National Gallery and Impressionism
Impressionism now
Further Reading	79