Lasting Impressions - The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture

Jesse Matz considers its two legacies¿positive and negative¿to explain impressionism¿s true contemporary significance.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. First and Lasting: Histories for the Tache
2. The Impressionist Advertisement
3. Photogénie from Renoir to Gance to Renoir
4. The "Image of Africa" from Conrad to Achebe to Adichie
5. Impressionist Fraud: Klein, Saito, Frey
6. Contemporary Impressions and Kitsch Aesthetics: Kinkade/Doig
7. The Pseudo-Impressionist Novel: Sebald, Tóibín, Cunningham
8. Thinking Medium: The Rhetoric of Popular Cognition
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the author

Jesse Matz

Summary

Jesse Matz considers its two legacies—positive and negative—to explain impressionism’s true contemporary significance.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Matz, Matz Jesse
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780231164061
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16406-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Literature Now; Literature Now
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Impressionism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, modern literary criticism