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Informationen zum Autor Mary Tompkins Lewis is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Trinity College! Hartford. She is the author of Cézanne's Early Imagery (UC Press) and Cézanne. Klappentext "This compilation will prove highly useful in its assessment of figure and landscape painting; criticism and exhibition strategies; and social, economic,and political history. Distinct art historical voices are brought together, offering the reader a broad spectrum of approaches to the subject."—Margaret Werth, author of The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900 "The texts that Lewis presents are knowledgeably and intelligently chosen and cover the basic revisionist trends in recent scholarship in a broad and admirably thoughtful way."—Jack Flam, author of Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship "Mary Tompkins Lewis's anthology provides a welcome tool not only for courses on Impressionism itself, but also for anyone interested in teaching a methods course in art history."—James Rubin, author of Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life Zusammenfassung Includes essays that capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of the criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. This title offers fascinating perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: The Critical History of Impressionism: An Overview MARY TOMPKINS LEWIS Part One Background Studies: Economic Landscapes and Exhibition Strategies 1 Impressionism! Originality! and Laissez-Faire ROBERT L. HERBERT 2 Dealing in Temperaments: Economic Transformation of the Artistic Field in France during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century NICOLAS GREEN 3 Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions MARTHA WARD Part Two Landscapes of Modernity 4 Framing the Landscape JOHN HOUSE 5 The Environs of Paris T.J. CLARK Part Three The Critical Climate 6 The Intransigent Artist or How the Impressionists Got Their Name STEPHEN F. EISENMAN 7 Duranty on Degas: A Theory of Modern Painting CAROL ARMSTRONG 8 Berthe Morisot and the Feminizing of Impressionism TAMAR GARB Part Four Impressionism! Politics! and Nationalism 9 Camille Pissarro in 1880: An Anarchistic Artist in Bourgeois Society MICHEL MELOT 10 Monet and the Challenges to Impressionism in the 1880s PAUL TUCKER Part Five Recent Studies in Post-Impressionist Painting 11 Seurat’s Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory LINDA NOCHLIN 12 At the Threshold of Symbolism: Van Gogh’s Sower and Gauguin’s Vision after the Sermon DEBORA SILVERMAN 13 Mark! Motif! Materiality: The Cézanne Effect in the Twentieth Century RICHARD SHIFF Select Bibliography Contributors List of Illustrations Index ...
