Impressionists and impressionism / Main text [by] Maria and Godfrey Blunden. Documentary notices, synoptic sequence of witness accounts by the painters, their friends, and the writers and critics of the Impressionist Period; dictionary-index of persons and places [by] Jean-Luc Daval. Translated by James Emmons

Blunden, Maria

1970, 1st edition. [Geneva] : Skira. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #472563

Physical description: 238 pages : illustrations (some color), color plates, portraits (some color) ; 34 cm. Contents: The "gilded and voluptuous promises" of the second empire -- Ingres -- Corot -- Delacroix -- Millet: the cry of the earth -- The official glories of the salon -- The dramatic realism of Courbet -- From realism to an objectiveand poetic naturalism -- Manet, the fascinating man of the world, and Degas, the sarcastic misanthrope, were at one in their scorn for conventions -- Degas follows Manet in the path of modernity -- In quest of an immediate expression of the senses -- A childhood friendship: Cézanne and Zola -- Cézanne and Zola making their way in Paris -- The Académie Suisse -- Le Havre: sea, sky, and light -- The young Pissarro in the Antilles -- The studio of Bazille -- "The painters of the new painting" -- Manet, an example rather than a master -- Writers and friends -- The salons -- Daumier: the public at the salon -- The "Olympia" scandal -- Fontainebleau: the first open air compositions -- Painters and photography -- The discovery of Japanese prints and their influence on the impressionists -- Cézanne divides his time between Paris and AIX -- Manet and his models -- The world's fair of 1867 -- The café Guerbois -- Bougival: early ventures in open air painting -- Le Déjeuner sur L'Herbe -- "Some dazzling seascapes" -- La Grenouillére -- Montmarte -- In the streets and boulevards of Paris -- The war of 1870 -- Courbet and the Paris commune -- Monet and Pissarro in London -- After the war -- Degas in New Orleans -- A Manet success at the salon -- 1874: first group exhibition -- Painting form nature -- The light of the seasons -- The radiance of spring -- The summer sun -- All the colors of nature -- The theme of the still life -- Fitful and fleeting reflections -- Argenteuil and the banks of the Seine -- Sundays at the Moulin de la Galette -- ...and Sunday outings at Bougival -- The Paris boulevards -- The eye of Degas -- Claude Monet: the Gare Saint-Lazare -- The suspended moment -- ...and suspended movement -- The flash of the snapshot -- Manet: the bar at the Folies-Bergére -- The cafés -- The café concerts -- Festival magic -- Glimpses of daily life -- In the streets of Paris with Renoir -- The constancy of Nature -- Friends, collectors, and dealers -- Gatherings at the café de la Nouvelle Athénes -- Mary Cassatt -- Pissaro's influence on the younger generation -- New lines of research and experiment -- The salon painters and the independents -- Cézanne: the solitary pathfinder -- Cézanne: rigor of design and vision -- Pissarro and humanitarian socialism -- The first Cézanne exhibitions at Vollard's -- Degas and the shattering of form -- Renoir in the light of the south -- Impressionism on the eve of success -- Monet's "home port" at Giverny -- Monet and the great set of pictures -- The poplars -- The cathedrals -- London and Venice -- The water lilies of Giverny -- "The magnificent poetry of the passing moment". Subjects: 1800-1899. Impressionism (Art) France. Art, French 19th century. Impressionist artists France ; Biography. Impressionnisme (Art) France. Art, Modern 19th century France.

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