Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists’ commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep exploration of the art of the past. Presenting Impressionist works by artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Bazille, Cassatt, and Cézanne alongside those of Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez, and others, the book shows that while the Impressionists moved toward modernity and spontaneity, they remained conscious of and interested in the traditions, techniques, and subject matter of their predecessors.
Essays by leading scholars reveal the ways Impressionists drew inspiration from earlier artists from periods ranging from the Italian Renaissance through the early 19th-century Classical and Romantic traditions. A detailed chronology and fascinating comparisons of landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, and genre paintings provide readers with new opportunities to understand the work of both the Impressionists and Old Masters.

Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Arts & Photography

Michael Clarke

Richard Rand

John House

John Collins

Xavier Bray

Frances Jowell

Lesley Stevenson

History & Criticism

Denver Art Museum

Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France 1850-1900

International specialists in French art and literature come together in this volume to investigate modernité through painting, sculpture, the novel, diaries, dance, poetry, criticism and theory. Modernité had no simple definition. It grew out of a rapidly changing world: one of dramatic urban transformation. The experiences and impressions of individuals faced with this modern world engendered a new artistic genre. Beginning with Delacroix, Baudelaire and Gautier, Impressions of French Modernity moves on to Manet, Degas and Mallarmé through a broad sweep of familiar and unfamiliar works of art and literature. Its three main sections identify particular features of modernity: impressions of the Second Empire; innovations in form found in verbal and visual works or art throughout the period 1850-1900; and problems of identity surrounding the figure of the artist.

Richard Shiff

David, Scott

Paul, Smith

Michele Hannoosh

James Kearns

Alan Krell

Joy Newton

Dee Reynolds

Manchester University Press

Dozens of reproductions highlight the work of Parisian avant-garde artists of the late 1880s and early 1890s, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard, and Georges Seurat, providing a fresh look at this influential generation of artists and the impact of their work on the development of modern art.

Vincent Van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard

Richard Thomson

Cornelia Homburg

Elizabeth C. Childs

Individual Artists

Rizzoli

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. Throughout his career, he continually experimented with composition, light, paint handling, and pictorial structure in innovative new ways that challenged traditionaland contemporarypainting. He taught himself by working side-by-side with fellow Impressionist masters Monet and Sisley, and in the 1870s began to define his distinctive landscape style of quick, silvery brushstrokes. By the end of the decade he had moved decisively in the direction of unparalleled painterly freedom. This stunning book is the first to examine Renoir’s landscape art in depth, tracing its evolution from the beginning of his career through his Impressionist period and the early 1880s, when he began to incorporate new landscape motifs and new levels of coloristic intensity in paintings after traveling to Algeria and Italy. With over 200 illustrations, a detailed chronology, and bibliography, the bookincludes essays by highly distinguished scholars that discuss the range and importance of these works and present many fresh discoveries. They also place Renoir’s landscapes in the overall context of the genre in 19th-century France, revealing how his experiments were radical andin ways that have not yet been fully acknowledgedinfluential on the later development of modern art.

Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883

Colin Bailey

Christopher Riopelle

National Gallery London

Land Rover My Love

Travel

Africa

Janus Publishing Co Ltd

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