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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300206104
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046614510
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Impressionism: a New Vision, 1880-1900
AuthorRichard R. Brettell, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Frances Fowle
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
Number of Pages160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height295mm
Item Width245mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorKatherine M. Bourguignon, Richard R. Brettell, Frances Fowle
Series TitleEditions Hazan
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States