Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Subtitle: La promenade
By: John House.
Contributors: Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919.
Series: Getty Museum studies on art
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919.; Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919 -- Criticism and interpretation.; J. Paul Getty Museum.; Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Other titles: Promenade
Description: John House examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" The reader is invited to look at the canvas - and Impressionism - as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.