The Painting of Modern Life

Informationen zum Autor T.J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the seminal The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1984) and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999). He writes art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books . His other publications include Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1983), also published by Thames & Hudson. Zusammenfassung Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique! T.J. Clark describes the painting of Manet! Degas! Seurat and others as an attempt to give form to France's modernity and seek out its typical representatives! be they barmaids! sightseers or the petits bourgeois.

Product details

• Authors: T. J. Clark, T.J. Clark, Clark T. J.
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2000
• EAN: 9780500281796
• ISBN: 978-0-500-28179-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Impressionism, Paintings and painting, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism