Delacroix and the rise of modern art
By: Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle
Contributors: Riopelle, Christopher, author; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781857095753; 9781857095760
Subjects: Technique; Art; Exhibitions; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Philosophy; Influence; Japanese influences; Modern Art; National Gallery (Great Britain); French Art; Themes, motives; History
Other titles: Delacroix's influence: the rise of modern art from Cézanne to van Gogh.
Description: Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries.  An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Vincent van Gogh, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Richard Parkes Bonington, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Jean Metzinger, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Notes: "This exhibition is co-organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The National Gallery, London.  [The exhibition will be held at] Minneapolis Institute of Art, 18 October 2015-10 January 2016, [entitled: 'Delacroix's Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh'; and at] The National Gallery, London, 17 February-22 May 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue / Patrick Noon; title: 'What is Delacroix?' / Patrick Noon; title: Afterlife Delacroix's posthumous fame / Christopher Riopelle; title: Emulation; title: Orientalism imagined, experienced, re-imagined; title: Narrative painting at a crossroads 'Truth in Art'; title: Delacroix's Legacy in Paint and Prose.