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Art of Impressionism : Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity by Anthea Callen (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300084021

ISBN-139780300084023

eBay Product ID (ePID)1716905

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameArt of Impressionism : Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity

Publication Year2000

SubjectHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Techniques / Painting, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt

AuthorAnthea Callen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight71.4 Oz

Item Length11.5 in

Item Width9.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-108612

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal751.4

SynopsisThis magnificent book is the first full-scale exploration of Impressionist technique. Focusing on the easel-painted work of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Cassatt, Morisot, Caillebotte, Sisley, and Degas in the period before 1900, it places their methods and materials in a historical perspective and evaluates their origins, novelty, and meanings within the visual formation of urban modernity. Drawing on scientific studies of pigments and materials, artists' treatises, colormens' archives, and contemporary and modern accounts, Anthea Callen demonstrates how raw materials and paintings are profoundly interdependent. She analyzes the material constituents of oil painting and the complex processes of "making" entailed in all aspects of artistic production, discussing in particular oil painting methods for landscapists and the impact ofplein airlighton figure painting, studio practice, and display. Insisting that the meanings of paintings are constituted by and within the cultural matrices that produced them, Callen argues that the real "modernity" of the Impressionist enterprise lies in the painters' material practices. Bold brushwork, unpolished, sketchy surfaces, and bright, "primitive" colors were combined with their subject matter-the effects of light, the individual sensation made visible-to establish the modern as visual.

LC Classification NumberND1482.I6C35 2000