Color in the age of impressionism
Subtitle: commerce, technology, and art
By: Laura Anne Kalba
Series: RM, refiguring modernism -- 22; Refiguring modernism -- 22.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780271077000
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Color; Color in art; Impressionism (Art); History
Description: "Analyzes the impact of color 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. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Michel-Eugène Chevreul, color, and the dangers of excessive variety; title: From blue roses to yellow violets : flowers and the cultivation of color; title: Impressionism's chemical aesthetic : the materials and meanings of color; title: Fireworks : color, fantasy, and the visual culture of modern enchantment; title: Chromolithography : posters, trade cards, and the politics of ephemera collecting in fin-de-siècle France; title: Epilogue : autochromes and neo-impressionism : the end of the age of impressionism.