American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880-1900 (Editions Hazan) - Softcover

Bourguignon, Katherine; Brettell, Richard R.; Fowle, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300206100 ISBN 13: 9780300206104

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

A sumptuously illustrated exploration of American artists' interpretations of Impressionist styles and themes This lively, beautifully illustrated book focuses on a group of American artists who applied Impressionist ideas and techniques to American subjects, and in so doing, they attracted and cultivated an enthusiastic American audience. These artists, including Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Theodore Robinson, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam, invented a new and highly diverse formulation of the Impressionist movement. Essays by experts in the field of Impressionism discuss the impact of Impressionism on the countryside and city paintings of Robinson and Hassam; and consider significant pictures by Cassatt, Sargent, and Whistler that demonstrate their role in the exploration of brilliant color harmonies and compositions developed from contact with French artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. The book features more than 60 paintings, some well known, others less familiar, produced in Europe and America. By representing American imagery, from the Atlantic coastline to New York's public gardens, through the most current ideas about art-making, the artists showcased here created a unique expression of an evolving national identity.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine M. Bourguignon is associate curator at Terra Foundation for American Art in Europe. Frances Fowle is reader in history of art at the University of Edinburgh and senior curator of French art at the Scottish National Gallery. Richard R. Brettell is the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair, Art and Aesthetics, at the University of Texas at Dallas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300206100
• ISBN 13: 9780300206104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160