The Impressionists: A Retrospective
Language: English
Published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1991
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- Title
- The Impressionists: A Retrospective
- Author
- Martha Kapos [Editor]
- Publisher
- Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0883639726
- ISBN 13
- 9780883639726
- Illustrator
- Illustrated Throughout
- Item weight
- 87 ounces
- Dimensions
- 12x9x1
A group of young artists in 1874, in opposition to the established authority of the Salon and the Academy, decided to show their work directly to the public in an exhibition which they organized themselves. The artist forming the core of this group - Pissarro, Degas, Sisley, Cazanne, Monet, Renoir and Moriset - came to be known as "the Impressionists." Seen to be following the independent spirit of Manet, they were immediately identified as the Avant-garde and their first exhibition became an historic landmark in the development of modern art.
We now tend to see the landscapes of Impressionist paintings as perfect images of nature. It is easy to overlook their startling and fragmented appearance at the time they were painted. The documents in this book show how the paintings looked to contemporary eyes: to both the critics and the artists. Some of the criticism these paintings received is almost as famous as the works themselves, and several important documents appear here in English translation for the first time.
The book tells the story of the personal struggles, debates, problems and solutions involved in a new way of painting that quickly led in unforeseen directions and took enormous risks with the traditional means of representing the world in art. These experiences are revealed in the letters and recorded comments of the artists themselves, and in the writings of friends and contemporary critics, many of whom, such as Baudelaire, Zola, Valery, Mallarme, Huysman, Laforgue and Mirbeau, were also novelists and poets.
The continuing interpretation of Impressionism within the changing art and art criticism of the twentieth century is examined through the writings of artists suah as Leger, Kandinsky, Masson, Matisse and Hofmann as well as recent critics, philosophers and art historians including Meyer Schapiro, Gaston Bachelard, Clement Greeneberg and Lawrence Gowing.
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