Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh |
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Author:
James H. Rubin
By University of California Press
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Product Description
This book offers a major reevaluation of one of art history's most popular and important art movements. In Impressionism and the Modern Landscape, James Rubin shifts the focus from familiar scenes of pleasure--the beautiful countryside, people at leisure--to a landscape changing as the result of productivity, technology, and urbanization. He demonstrates not only that the industrial and demographic revolutions of the nineteenth century had a profound impact on art, but also that impressionism was the first art historical movement to embrace such changes. Looking principally at Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Armand Guillaumin, and Gustave Caillebotte, Rubin has selected works in four categories: industrial waterways, trains, factories, and photographic viewpoints in the modern city. The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of impressionist celebrations of modernity to include "impressionism's other landscape."
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Impressionism Landscapes, 2008-12-21
If you like Impressionism as depicted in the moteif of landscapes, you will do well to read this book. The level of depth on the great landscape artists such as Monet, Renoir, and Sisley is superb.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.0344
EAN: 9780520248014
ISBN: 0520248015
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008-04-03
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press |
