Impressionist Art
by Boyle, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Summary
For a so-called art movement, impressionist painters were a very dissimilar group. Monet and Renoir liked people-watching and hanging out with the jet set at La Brenouilliegrave;re. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses. One thing these artists all had in common, however, was a love of color: bright, big, bold dabs of it. Impressionist Art: A Crash Courseprovides lots of color as well as hundreds of amusing anecdotes and little-known facts about this popular period. Readers will not only be able to tell the Manets from the Monets, but will quickly become experts on the many mini-movements within this popular style. This fun-loving guide is appealing, compact, lavishly illustrated, and conveniently organized chronologically spread by spread. For anyone who can't tell the water lilies from the haystacks,Impressionist Art: A Crash Courseis an enjoyable trip for all. Reader-friendly and informative text brings new dimension to familiar history Each 2-page spread is devoted to a particular impressionist movement, topic, or individual artist Compact and easy to follow timeline puts vital events of the period into context
Author Biography
David Boyle is the author of Renaissance Art: A Crash Course. He writes for The Times (London) and the Guardian. Boyle lives in London, England.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| Love and Death: The Romantic Movement | p. 12 |
| Blurred Brutality: Goya | p. 14 |
| Hay-waining: Constable | p. 16 |
| Blood and Iron: Delacroix and Turner | p. 18 |
| The Peasants' Revolt: Corot and the Barbizon School | p. 20 |
| Sing a Rainbow: The physics of light | p. 22 |
| Only If I Can Touch It: The new naturalism | p. 24 |
| Picnic Hampers: Artists do it outside | p. 26 |
| Watch the Birdy!: The arrival of photography | p. 28 |
| People Who Live in Glass Houses: The new architecture | p. 30 |
| Capital of Art: The new Paris | p. 32 |
| Mountains Through Windows: Japanese prints | p. 34 |
| Something Like God: Pissarro | p. 36 |
| Music and Movement: Whistler | p. 38 |
| Black Rebellion: Manet | p. 40 |
| Student Revolt: The Atelier Gleyre | p. 42 |
| The Forgotten Impressionist: Sisley | p. 44 |
| Red Trees and Brushstrokes: Cezanne | p. 46 |
| The Pleasures of the Flesh: Renoir | p. 48 |
| On the Spot: Monet | p. 50 |
| Refuseniks: At the Salon des Refuses | p. 52 |
| Strange Lunch: Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe | p. 54 |
| Coffee and Absinthe: Batignolles and the Cafe Guerbois | p. 56 |
| The Magic of Ankles: Degas | p. 58 |
| Petal Power: Morisot | p. 60 |
| Bathing Beauties: Monet and Renoir at La Grenouillere | p. 62 |
| Barbarians at the Gate: The Franco-Prussian War | p. 64 |
| Death of a Salesman: Durand-Ruel | p. 66 |
| First Impressions: The 1874 exhibition | p. 68 |
| Grim Reapers: Impressionist writers | p. 70 |
| Rather Sodden People: The Absinthe Drinker | p. 72 |
| Squabbling Daubers: The next seven exhibitions | p. 74 |
| The Starving Garret: Bohemianism and decadence | p. 76 |
| Tangled Bodies: Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette | p. 78 |
| Smoke and Mist: Gare Saint-Lazare | p. 80 |
| The Pot of Paint: Ruskin rersus Whistler | p. 82 |
| The American Connection: Cassatt | p. 84 |
| Sweaty Women: L'Etoile | p. 86 |
| Wonky Tables: Still-Life with Compotier | p. 88 |
| Bleary Picnic: Luncheon of the Boating Party | p. 90 |
| Join the Dots: Seurat and pointillism | p. 92 |
| Come Back Raphael, All is Forgiven: Renoir goes to Italy | p. 94 |
| Urban Chic: Bar at the Folies-Bergere | p. 96 |
| Camille Goes Dotty: Pissarro's Neo-Impressionist phase | p. 98 |
| Going Native: Gauguin and Synthetism | p. 100 |
| Bits of Body: Rodin | p. 102 |
| Colorful Notes: Impressionist music | p. 104 |
| Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Post-Impressionism | p. 106 |
| Indoor Impressionists: Sickert and the Camden Town Group | p. 108 |
| Manifesto in Paint: Seurat's Sunday Afternoon | p. 110 |
| Lend Me Your Ear: Van Gogh | p. 112 |
| International Dabs: Impressionism goes worldwide | p. 114 |
| Stage Blood: Chekhow and Impressionist drama | p. 116 |
| Bill Stickers: Toulouse-Lautrec | p. 118 |
| Looking for a Cathedral in a Haystack: Monet's serial paintings | p. 120 |
| The Second Generation: Bonnard and Vuillard | p. 122 |
| Fin de Siecle: Art Nouveau and the Aesthetes | p. 124 |
| The Movies: Edison, Lumiere, and motion pictures | p. 126 |
| Wet and Blue: The waterlilies | p. 128 |
| Fog, Nudes, and Lily pads: Old Impressionists | p. 130 |
| Leaving Out the Scene: Abstract Impressionism | p. 132 |
| Relative Penis Envy: Einstein, Freud, and the Impressionist legacy | p. 134 |
| Frenzied Auctioneers: The posthumous success of the Impressionists | p. 136 |
| Where to See the Impressionists | p. 138 |
| Glossary | p. 140 |
| Index | p. 142 |
| Photographic credits | p. 144 |
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