The Barbizon School and the Origins of Impressionism

Informationen zum Autor Steven Adams teaches at the School of Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire and lectures at the Victoria & Albert Museum and National Gallery in London. Klappentext The key painters associated with the Barbizon School - Corot! Millet! Rousseau and Courbet - are among the finest landscape artists of the nineteenth century. From their base at the village of Barbizon in the Forest of Fontainebleau! just outside Paris! they painted nature as they saw it! anticipating many of the techniques and effects of Impressionism. In this survey Steven Adams re-evaluates French landscape painting in the half-century before Impressionism! placing this 'return to nature' against the background of the rapid industrialization and political crises of the period. Zusammenfassung A re-evaluation of French landscape painting in the half-century before Impressionism.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Adams
• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.1997
• EAN: 9780714836232
• ISBN: 978-0-7148-3623-2
• Dimensions: 250 mm x 290 mm x 20 mm
• Series: F A GENERAL; F A GENERAL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Painting & paintings, Impressionism, Paintings and painting, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism