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Book The Practice and Philosophy of French Impressionism

Download or read book The Practice and Philosophy of French Impressionism written by Jerry Fresia and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Practice and Philosophy of French Impressionism

Download or read book The Practice and Philosophy of French Impressionism written by Jerry Fresia and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French Impressionists  1860 1900

Download or read book The French Impressionists 1860 1900 written by Camille Mauclair and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration delves into the world of French Impressionism, a revolutionary art movement that emerged between 1860 and 1900. Camille Mauclair offers detailed insights into the lives and works of the artists who pioneered this style, capturing the essence of a period that transformed the art world. With a focus on the techniques, colors, and subjects that defined Impressionism, this book is a must-read for art enthusiasts and historians alike.

Book Impressionism and the Modern Landscape

Download or read book Impressionism and the Modern Landscape written by James H. Rubin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of Impressionist celebrations of modernity to include what might be called Impressionism's "other landscape" and proposes that in the Impressionists' effort to forge a modern landscape art, those signs of modernity defined their vision most clearly."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Great Book of French Impressionism

Download or read book The Great Book of French Impressionism written by Horst Keller and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Color in the Age of Impressionism

Download or read book Color in the Age of Impressionism written by Laura Anne Kalba and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art. Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.

Book Impressionism  A Feminist Reading

Download or read book Impressionism A Feminist Reading written by Norma Broude and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original interpretation of Impressionism and nineteenth-century art and culture by a noted feminist art historian. This book is a pioneering reading of Impressionism from a feminist perspective by a noted art historian. Norma Broude analyzes the philosophical underpinnings of landscape painting in the late nineteenth century discussing the crit

Book The Painting of Modern Life

Download or read book The Painting of Modern Life written by T.J. Clark and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spectacles avidly appropriated by a new kind of "consumer": clerks and shopgirls, neither working class nor bourgeois, inventing their own social position in a system profoundly altered by their very existence. Emancipated and rootless, these men and women flocked to the bars and nightclubs of Paris, went boating on the Seine at Argenteuil, strolled the island of La Grande-Jatte—enacting a charade of community that was to be captured and scrutinized by Manet, Degas, and Seurat. It is Clark's cogently argued (and profusely illustrated) thesis that modern art emerged from these painters' attempts to represent this new city and its inhabitants. Concentrating on three of Manet's greatest works and Seurat's masterpiece, Clark traces the appearance and development of the artists' favorite themes and subjects, and the technical innovations that they employed to depict a way of life which, under its liberated, pleasure-seeking surface, was often awkward and anxious. Through their paintings, Manet and the Impressionists ask us, and force us to ask ourselves: Is the freedom offered by modernity a myth? Is modern life heroic or monotonous, glittering or tawdry, spectacular or dull? The Painting of Modern Life illuminates for us the ways, both forceful and subtle, in which Manet and his followers raised these questions and doubts, which are as valid for our time as for the age they portrayed.

Book French Impressionists and Their Circle

Download or read book French Impressionists and Their Circle written by Herman Joel Wechsler and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French Impressionists

    Book Details:
  • Author : Camille Mauclair
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-06-05
  • ISBN : 9781546653905
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The French Impressionists written by Camille Mauclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will be beyond the scope of this volume to give a complete history of French Impressionism, and to include all the attractive details to which it might lead, as regards the movement itself and the very curious epoch during which its evolution has taken place. The proportions of this book confine its aim to the clearest possible summing up for the British reader of the ideas, the personalities and the works of a considerable group of artists who, for various reasons, have remained but little known and who have only too frequently been gravely misjudged. These reasons are very obvious: first, the Impressionists have been unable to make a show at the Salons, partly because the jury refused them admission, partly because they held aloof of their own free will. They have, with very rare exceptions, exhibited at special minor galleries, where they become known to a very restricted public. Ever attacked, and poor until the last few years, they enjoyed none of the benefits of publicity and sham glory. It is only quite recently that the admission of the incomplete and badly arranged Caillebotte collection to the Luxembourg Gallery has enabled the public to form a summary idea of Impressionism. To conclude the enumeration of the obstacles, it must be added that there are hardly any photographs of Impressionist works in the market. As it is, photography is but a poor translation of these canvases devoted to the study of the play of light; but even this very feeble means of distribution has been withheld from them! Exhibited at some galleries, gathered principally by Durand-Ruel, sold directly to art-lovers-foreigners mostly-these large series of works have practically remained unknown to the French public. All the public heard was the reproaches and sarcastic comments of the opponents, and they never became aware that in the midst of modern life the greatest, the richest movement was in progress, which the French school had known since the days of Romanticism. Impressionism has been made known to them principally by the controversies and by the fruitful consequences of this movement for the illustration and study of contemporary life.

Book The French Impressionists  1860 1900

    Book Details:
  • Author : Camille Mauclair
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-08-12
  • ISBN : 9781724971395
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book The French Impressionists 1860 1900 written by Camille Mauclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair It will be beyond the scope of this volume to give a complete history of French Impressionism, and to include all the attractive details to which it might lead, as regards the movement itself and the very curious epoch during which its evolution has taken place. The proportions of this book confine its aim to the clearest possible summing up for the British reader of the ideas, the personalities and the works of a considerable group of artists who, for various reasons, have remained but little known and who have only too frequently been gravely misjudged. These reasons are very obvious: first, the Impressionists have been unable to make a show at the Salons, partly because the jury refused them admission, partly because they held aloof of their own free will. They have, with very rare exceptions, exhibited at special minor galleries, where they become known to a very restricted public. Ever attacked, and poor until the last few years, they enjoyed none of the benefits of publicity and sham glory. It is only quite recently that the admission of the incomplete and badly arranged Caillebotte collection to the Luxembourg Gallery has enabled the public to form a summary idea of Impressionism. To conclude the enumeration of the obstacles, it must be added that there are hardly any photographs of Impressionist works in the market. As it is, photography is but a poor translation of these canvases devoted to the study of the play of light; but even this very feeble means of distribution has been withheld from them! Exhibited at some galleries, gathered principally by Durand-Ruel, sold directly to art-lovers-foreigners mostly-these large series of works have practically remained unknown to the French public. All the public heard was the reproaches and sarcastic comments of the opponents, and they never became aware that in the midst of modern life the greatest, the richest movement was in progress, which the French school had known since the days of Romanticism. Impressionism has been made known to them principally by the controversies and by the fruitful consequences of this movement for the illustration and study of contemporary life. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book The great book of French impressionism

Download or read book The great book of French impressionism written by D. Kelder and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impressionism Reflections and Perceptions

Download or read book Impressionism Reflections and Perceptions written by Meyer Schapiro and published by George Braziller Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a revision of the late Columbia University art historian's lectures given at Indiana University in 1961.

Book Theory and Practice of Contrast

Download or read book Theory and Practice of Contrast written by Mariusz Stanowski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics. Through the integration of these distant disciplines, many unresolved issues in contemporary science have been clarified or better understood, among others: defining impact (contrast) and using this definition in different fields of knowledge; understanding what beauty/art is and what our aesthetic preferences depend on; deeper understanding of what complexity and information are in essence, and providing their general definitions. Complexity means integration, value and goodness - concepts that seem to be neglected today. The book also has a high degree of integration/complexity, although each chapter introduces a new issue. The last chapter: "Binary Model of the Universe" draws attention to the need for including in physics the analysis of our mind and the resulting new possibilities, which include the mentioned (digital) model of the universe. Despite the difficult issues raised here, this study is written in accessible language and may be interesting not only for scientists and academics.

Book Between Impressionism and Realism

Download or read book Between Impressionism and Realism written by Brittany Strupp and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Henri is regarded as the quintessential American Realist and the outspoken representative of the Ashcan artists. Inspired by his philosophy of artistic practice, Henri's followers embraced their individuality and represented their engagement with the realities of modern life. For his own part, however, Henri never truly adopted the reformist style embraced by the Ashcan Realists. Instead, his art remained torn between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In other words, there is a fundamental division between the philosophy that aligned Henri with his pupils and the style and substance of his own artistic practice. By looking back to Henri's formative years-when he dabbled in impressionism, symbolism, and aestheticism-we can gain a fuller understanding of the dichotomous, sometimes contradictory nature of his more conservative artistic practice and his progressive philosophy of art. Reexamination also connects Henri to the influential artists of the nineteenth century, such as James McNeill Whistler, who contributed to his complex artistic philosophy, style, and technique. Throughout this project follows Henri's navigation of a range of anti-academic, late-nineteenth century art traditions in combination with more academic practice to reconsider Henri's lasting interest in nineteenth century modernisms. Most relevant to our modern moment, this project takes a second look at his portraits of Chinese Americans, which are conventionally read through the lens of "realism." Not "honest" representations, these portraits are tempered by Henri's imagination, popular culture, and the Japonisme of Whistler, the Impressionists, and the Symbolists. Finally, critical reconsideration of Henri's publication "The Art Spirit" reveals the lasting legacy of nineteenth-century thought in Henri's philosophy of art even as it inspires more forward-thinking practice.

Book A Forest of Symbols

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrei Pop
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2019-09-27
  • ISBN : 1942130333
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book A Forest of Symbols written by Andrei Pop and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns they shared with scientists of the period—the problem of subjectivity in particular. In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, “symbolist” denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning, and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to viewers and readers by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but as a revolution in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one's experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop offers close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell—filling in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.