Modern art book. Magnificent coffee table book on Post-Impressionist painters with numerous full color plates.

Post Impressionism Cross Currents In European Painting

House, John

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Analyzes the career of the artist responsible for the public image of Impressionism, focusing on the evolution in Monet's painting technique and execution and relating it to his ideas, experiences, and the contexts in which he worked

Monet: Nature into Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In 1923, the industrialist Samuel Courtauld gave [actual symbol not reproducible]50,000 to the British government to encourage the purchase of a collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. At the same time, he continued to build up his own fine collection of French late nineteenth-century paintings, most of which he later gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art. This beautiful book tells the story of Courtauld's collecting and patronage. The introductory essays offer a reassessment of the cultural history of England between the wars, exploring Courtauld's collecting and patronage from a variety of perspectives. John House writes on the position of the collection within Impressionism and examines the gradual acceptance of modern French art in England's national museums; Andrew Stephenson places Courtauld's collecting in the context of the cultural politics of England in the period; and John Murdoch discusses his activities in relation to the history of the Courtauld family. The remainder of the book presents detailed catalogue entries that discuss all the French pictures in Courtauld's private collection; a complete, annotated checklist of his purchases draws on recently rediscovered original receipts, and an anthology of original texts illuminates the debates about the acceptance of modern French art in London's museums. Impressionism for England accompanies the 1994 Summer Exhibition at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, which focuses on the private collection of Samuel Courtauld, including the paintings he gave to the Institute and works that he bequeathed to friends and members of his family. At the same time, the National Gallery in London will be highlighting the remainder of Courtauld's purchases, the pictures bought for the national collection. Distributed for the Courtauld Institute Galleries.

Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector

Biographies & Memoirs

A new perspective on Impressionist art that offers revealing, fresh interpretations of familiar paintings In this handsome book, a leading authority on Impressionist painting offers a new view of this admired and immensely popular art form. John House examines the style and technique, subject matter and imagery, exhibiting and marketing strategies, and social, political, and ideological contexts of Impressionism in light of the perspectives that have been brought to it in the last twenty years. When all of these diverse approaches are taken into account, he argues, Impressionism can be seen as a movement that challenged both artistic and political authority with its uncompromisingly modern subject matter and its determinedly secular worldview. Moving from the late 1860s to the early 1880s, House analyzes the paintings and career strategies of the leading Impressionist artists, pointing out the ways in which they countered the dominant conventions of the contemporary art world and evolved their distinctive and immediately recognizable manner of painting. Focusing closely on the technique, composition, and imagery of the paintings themselves and combining this fresh appraisal with recent historical studies of Impressionism, House explores how pictorial style could generate social and political meanings and opens new ways of looking at this luminous art.

Impressionism: Paint and Politics

With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir's work during the first half of the 20th century. Today the masterpieces he so admired form a vital part of the Impressionist holdings of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark offers a fascinating, fresh look at the thirty-two Renoir paintings in the Clark collection, featuring beautiful digital color reproductions created especially for this volume. 
The book brings to light new and often revelatory scholarship concerning the importance of each work, both within Renoir's oeuvre and within the Clark collection. Among the richly varied paintings, encompassing portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, are such key works as Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel Sewing, A Box at the Theater (At the Concert), Onions, and Venice, the Doge's Palace. John House, a leading authority on Renoir, offers an in-depth analysis of each of the works in the collection, and curator-author James A. Ganz draws on extensive archival research on Sterling Clark's pursuits as an art collector and museum founder to illuminate this visionary and often enigmatic man.

The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark

Clark Art Institute

A spectacular survey of the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Impressionist master Renoir The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, Pennsylvania, as an educational institution devoted to the appreciation of the fine arts. A passionate supporter of European modernism, Barnes built a collection that was virtually unrivaled, with massive holdings by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. But it was Renoir that Barnes admired above all other artists; he thought of him as a god and collected his work tenaciously, amassing 181 works by the painter between 1912 and 1942. All of these Renoirs are included in this lavishly illustrated book.
Renoir in the Barnes Foundation tells the fascinating story of Barnes's obsession with the Impressionist master's late works, while offering illuminating new scholarship on the works themselves. Authors Martha Lucy and John House look closely at the key paintings in the collection, placing them in the wider contexts of contemporary artistic, aesthetic, and theoretical debates. The first volume to publish the entirety of Barnes's astonishing Renoir collection, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation is also an engaging study of the artist's critical—and often contested—role in the development of modern art.

Renoir in the Barnes Foundation

Lucy, Martha

Political geography has been one of the major growth areas within geography in recent years. Presenting a great deal of new research findings, new thinking and comprehensive overviews of key aspects of the subject, the contributors to this volume review past progress and current trends and discuss the areas where political geographers should undertake future research.

Political Geography: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Politics & Social Sciences

TAYLOR, PETER

Politics & Government

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Impressionist Masterpieces

Random House Value Publishing

Features a selection of masterpieces by such artists as Monet, Renoir, Degas, and van Gogh, explores the historical and artistic roots of Impressionism, and places each work in historical and cultural context

Impressionist Masterpieces National Gallery

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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Post Impressionism Cross Currents In European Painting

Monet: Nature into Art

Monet: Nature into Art

Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector

Impressionism: Paint and Politics

The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark

Renoir in the Barnes Foundation

Political Geography: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Impressionist Masterpieces

Impressionist Masterpieces National Gallery