Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Bracquemond, Manet, Whistler―these and other Impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing black and white etchings, aquatints, dry points, and color lithographs that exhibited the same easy yet subtle attraction that makes their oil paintings so beloved. In this beautiful book, an eminent authority examines the prints of these painter-printmakers, providing a new understanding of Impressionism and of contemporary printmaking. Drawing on discoveries of the last two decades and on his own research, Michel Melot locates the sources and influences of the prints and analyzes their techniques―particularly in monotypes and embossed prints. In so doing he reveals the close ties between the Impressionist movement and the rebirth of artists' prints in the second half of the nineteenth century. His analysis of the relations among artists, the art market, art criticism, collectors, and political institutions makes Impressionism appear less like a miracle and more a response to the social and economic upheavals of the nineteenth century.

The Impressionist Print

Arts & Photography

Melot, Michel

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Honore-Victorin Daumier (1808-79) was loved and loathed for his biting satires of contemporary life and human malice. This is the catalogue for the first retrospective of his work since 1878 and pulls together works on similar subjects for the first time. Daumier was very much an artists' artist, collected by artists like Corot, Degas, and Gauguin and inspiration to artists like Picasso. Daumier's art gave voice to universal subjects and themes by depicting a France struggling with its unfolding history. It is a well-known irony that Daumier is collected widely among lawyers, practitioners of a profession that he scorned. This book is lavishly produced, with almost every of 369 plates in color.

Daumier 1808-1879

Lobstein, Dominique

Papet, Edouard

Pantazzi, Professor Michael

Loyrette, Henry

Le Men, Ségolène

Graphic art of the pre-impressionists

H.N. Abrams

Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities. Dust jacket lightly rubbbed at the edges and extremities. Profusely illustrated throughout, 240 in black &amp;white, 110 in full color.

Art of Illustration

Rizzoli

Throughout his artistic career Picasso was fascinated by both caricature and the idea of the grotesque. This is the first book to examine the distortion of the figure as a central creative force in Picasso's art and as a springboard for his continual process of stylistic metamorphosis.

Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphosis of Style

Ocaña, María Teresa

Léal, Brigitte

Dupuis-Labbé, Dominique

Gervereau, Laurent

Delorme, Marie-Noëlle

Individual Artists

Lund Humphries

Throughout his artistic career Picasso was fascinated by both caricature and the idea of the grotesque: light and dark representations of the distorted human figure. Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphosis of Style, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, is the first book to examine the distortion of the figure as a central creative force in Picasso's art and a springboard for his continual process of stylistic metamorphosis. The journey through Picasso's work takes us from the satirical illustration and portrait caricature of the 1890s to the radical distortion of the figure in Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and later Cubist portraits; from light-hearted vignettes of Diaghilev, Bakst and Apollinaire to the monstrous, Surrealist portraits of women of the 1920s-40s; from portraits of the artist as clown to the Verve series of meditations on the painter and his model. Finally we see Picasso as caricatured by his entourage: the tables are turned. Caricatures, monsters, puppets and grotesque figures populate the pages of this book, which is illustrated with 400 reproductions of key works by Picasso drawn from public and private collections worldwide: paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and prints. More than 100 of the works reproduced are previously unpublished. With a series of interpretative essays by an international cast of distinguished Picasso scholars, the book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the life and work of a twentieth-century master.

Picasso: From Charicature to Metamorphosis of Style

Hofmann, Werner

Bozal, Valeriano

L'œuvre gravé de Boudin, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, Jongkind, Millet, Théodore Rousseau (Les Grands graveurs) (French Edition)

Arts et métiers graphiques

ART DU LIVRE

Zali, Anne

CITADELLES

Le château de Chaumont (Petites notes sur les grands édifices) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites

From DJ flap: Book features the development of France in the 15th and 16th centuries, the chateaux as an historical and social context and its political and social symbolic function. (Description by http-mart)

Chateaux of the Loire

Architecture

Taschen America, LLC

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