The Art of Impressionism
Subtitle: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300084023
Subjects: Impressionism; Modernism; Painting & paintings; c 1800 to c 1900; Painting; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - Impressionism; Techniques - General; Techniques - Painting; Art / General; History - General; Impressionism (Art); Plein air painting; Technique
First sentence: The nineteenth century is characterised in art histories as an era of innovation: in the production of the artist's materials, in their usage and in the 'modern' styles of painting they generated.