Critical readings in Impressionism and post-Impressionism
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Mary Tompkins Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Mary Tompkins
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780520240100; 9780520250222
Subjects: Impressionism (Art) -- France; Post-impressionism (Art) -- France; Painting, French -- 19th century; Painting, French -- 20th century
Other titles: Critical readings in Impressionism & post-Impressionism; Impressionism and post-Impressionism
Description: "The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Readers are invited to consider the profound issues and penetrating questions that lie beneath this perennially popular body of work as the contributors examine the art world of late nineteenth-century France--including detailed looks at Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Morisot, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The authors offer fascinating new perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts. They explore these painters' pictorial and market strategies, the critical reception and modern criteria the paintings engendered, and the movement's historic role in the formation of an avant-garde tradition. Their research reflects the wealth of new documents, critical approaches, and scholarly exhibitions that have fundamentally altered our understanding of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. These essays, several of which have previously been familiar only to scholars, provide instructive models of in-depth critical analysis and of the competing art historical methods that have crucially reshaped the field."--Http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006034879-d.html.
Notes: "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330) and index