Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (Clark Art Institute Series (YUP)) - Hardcover

Young, Marnin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300208324 ISBN 13: 9780300208320

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2015

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[ Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time By ( Author ) Aug-2015 Hardcover

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Review:

"Young's total saturation in, and mastery of, the extremely rich body of contemporary art criticism enables him to recreate, to a remarkable degree, the recep-tion of his chosen paintings by the most informed and sophisticated viewers of the time. The richness of 19th-century French art criticism is a gift to the historian, but only a handful of scholars have made the most of it; T. J. Clark, Martha Ward, Marc Gotlieb, and Stephen Bann come at once to mind, and Young in this book joins their rather exclusive club."--Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University--Michael Fried

"What emerges is a very unusual bringing together of what is usually dealt with separately, by those dedicated to different methodological frameworks: a Marxist-inspired social history of art as exemplified in the work of T.J. Clark, versus a Friedian phenomenology of "absorption and theatricality," and their different ways of combining an address to both form and content, facture and iconography. Thus Marnin Young's text manages to nuance and complicate very usefully all the existing narratives of this period of 'avant-garde' art as well as the standard divisions in art historical methodology associated with it."--Carol Armstrong, Yale University--Carol Armstrong

"Amid the endless stream of images that come our way as part of the twenty-?rst-century visual economy, Young's book provides a lesson in the value of slow looking." --Andrea Korda, RACAR: revue d'art canadienne
--Andrea Korda "RACAR: revue d'art canadienne "

Won an honorable mention for the 2016 Robert Motherwell Book Award given by the Dedalus Foundation.-- (05/26/2016)

About the Author:

Marnin Young is associate professor of art history at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300208324
• ISBN 13: 9780300208320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256