Impressionism /

Welton, Jude

Impressionism / Jude Welton - 1st American ed - London ; New York : Boston : Dorling Kindersley in association with the Art Institute of Chicago ; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, 1993 - 64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm - Eyewitness art . - Eyewitness art .

Includes index

What is impressionism? -- Manet's painting of modern life -- Student days -- Painting outdoors -- Monet and the Seine -- The batignolles group -- Rebelling against the Salon -- A revolution in color -- The impressionist palette -- Café life -- Renoir at the Moulin -- The eye of the camera -- Caillebotte's Paris -- The age of the train -- Out of town -- Sisley's landscapes -- In the garden -- Pissarro's workers -- Patrons and supporters -- Domestic lives -- Morisot's bourgeois women -- Days at the races -- At the theater -- Degas' dancers -- Inspired by Japan -- Cassatt's color prints -- Impressionism in crisis -- World impressionism

Examines the lives of impressionist painters and the influences that shaped their work through re-created albums of letters, sketches, and photographs

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Impressionism (Art)--France
Painting, French--19th century


Paris (France)--In art
Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century


Art.

ND547.5.I4 / W44 1993