The lens of impressionism
Subtitle: photography and painting along the Normandy coast, 1850-1874
By: Carole McNamara ; with essays by Sylvie Aubenas ... [et al.].
Contributors: Aubenas, Sylvie.; University of Michigan. Museum of Art.; Dallas Museum of Art.
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Art; In association with Hudson Hills Press; Distributed in the United States, its territories and possessions, and Canada by National Book Network
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor; Manchester; New York; [Lanham, Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781555953256
Subjects: Art and photography -- France -- Normandy -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Normandy -- Exhibitions; Coasts in art -- Exhibitions; Normandy (France) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions; In art
Description: "The Normany coast ... has long captured the interest of artists. Its seascapes are featured in the work of Impressionist masters Monet, Manet and Boudin. Its seafaring life is well-documented in the work of writers such as Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant. Through a stunning selection of paintings, photographs and drawings, [this work] argues that a unique convergence of forces - social, artistic, technological and commercial - along the Normandy coast impacted the development of early Impressionism and made Normandy a nexus for photographers and the avant-garde painters of the late nineteenth century ... The framing dates are 1850, when artists began photographing in Normandy ... and 1874, the year in which Claude Monet's painting Impression :Sunrise was exhibited ... The Lens of Impressionism explores the dialogue between the two media and the backdrop against which both evolved"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 10, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Feb. 21, 2010-May 23, 2010 at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.