The Treasures of the Impressionists

by Kear, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780233002347
• ISBN10: 0233002340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch

Summary

No other movement has had as great an impact on art in the last 200 years, nor been as popular with museum goers, as the Impressionists. But the road to acceptance was long and hard. This breathtaking oversize volumefilled with fabulous facsimile artifactslooks at the journey these great painters endured to establish themselves in the art world and gain the respect of critics and public alike. Follow the path of the Impressionists from the early encounters between such luminaries as Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas and Bazille as they converged on Paris to study at the academies, to their first exhibitions, to the later landscapes and portraits, This beautifully illustrated book places the art in its historical context, analyzes the techniques, focuses on the major painters and on the female Impressionsists, explains how their work influenced later generations, and even reveals the artists' loves and personal battles. This is a must-have anthology for any art lover. The amazing memorabilia includes: - A permit issued to Gustave Courbet during the time of the Paris Commune - Newspaper reviews - Extracts from Manet's and Sisley's sketchbooks - Renoir's palette list - An article by Charles Baudelaire on the Impressionists - Plus: posters, cartoons, illustrated letters, sketches and preparatory drawings, catalogue excerpts, photographs and more!

Author Biography

Jonathon Kear is a lecturer in History and Theory of Art at the University of Kent. He was educated at the Courtauld Institute, London, where he completed his PhD on the painter Paul Cézanne. He is the author of Sunless, 1999, a study of the French filmmaker Chris Marker, and has published widely on various aspects of 19th- and 20th-century painting, literature, popular culture, and photography. Currently he is completing two books, one on the painter Paul Cézanne and the other on Fantin Latour.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
The Impressionists in Context	p. 6
Impressionism: Origins and Precursors	p. 8
The Example of Manet	p. 10
Impressions of Paris	p. 14
Between the City, the Harbour and the Shore	p. 18
Monet and Renoir at La Grenouillere	p. 20
A Day in the Country	p. 22
The Franco-Prussian War	p. 24
The French Landscape in the 1870s	p. 26
The Imagery of the Suburbs	p. 28
Pissarro and Cezanne at Pontoise	p. 30
The First Impressionist Exhibition	p. 32
The Art of Sensation	p. 34
Impressionism and the Figure	p. 36
Degas and the Ballet	p. 38
Women Impressionists	p. 40
Impressionism During the 1870s and 1880s	p. 42
Salon Success and Group Shows	p. 44
Neo-Impressionism, Pissarro and the Critique of Impressionism	p. 46
Degas's Nudes	p. 48
Monet's Series Paintings	p. 50
Renoir's Bathers	p. 54
Late Impressionism and the question of Style	p. 58
Impressionist Sculpture	p. 60
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism	p. 62
Cezanne's Late Works	p. 64
Monet's Water Lilies and L'Art Decoratif	p. 66
After Impressionism	p. 68
Translations	p. 70
Further Information	p. 71
Index	p. 71
Credits	p. 72
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