From Millet to Leger
Subtitle: Essays in Social Art History
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780300097061
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Prints & printmaking; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Essays; European; Art / History / European; History - General; 19th century; 20th century; Art And Society; Art, French; France
Description: "A pre-eminent scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art, Robert L. Herbert has written extensively on aspects of this subject during his long career. This book brings together some of his most important essays, works that discuss the artistic and social issues that lie behind the surfaces of notable prints and paintings by such artists as Millet, Courbet, Daubigny, Monet, Pissarro, Signac, Delaunay, Leger, and Ernst.

In a preface prepared for this volume, Herbert explains that these essays are linked by a focus on the relation of art to the urban-industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.