Impression : painting quickly in France, 1860-1890 /

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Author / Creator:	Brettell, Richard R.
Imprint:	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., c2000.
Description:	240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Exhibitions. Painting, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. Impressionism (Art) Painting, French. France. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4446619

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Other authors / contributors:	Brettell, Richard R. National Gallery (Great Britain) Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
ISBN:	0300084463 0300084471 (pbk.)
Notes:	Catalogue of the exhibition "Impression: painting quickly in France, 1860-1890," National Gallery, London, Nov. 1, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Mar. 2-May 20, 2001; and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 16-Sept. 9, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-) and index.

Table of Contents:

Directors' foreword
Lenders to the exhibition
Preface and acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Impression in 1874
3. Painting as performance: Spontaneity and its appearances in painting, and the intellectual origins of the Impression
4. Edouard Manet and performative painting
5. Claude Monet and the development of the Impression
6. Berthe Morisot and Auguste Renoir: The wetness of paint and the sketch aesthetic
7. Alfred Sisley: The Impression, graphism, and automatic writing
8. Could Edgar Degas paint an Impression?
9. Gustave Caillebotte and Camille Pissarro: Impressionists without Impressions?
10. Coda: Was van Gogh an Impressionist?
Appendix. Laforgue's essay on Impressionism
Bibliographical essay
Checklist of exhibited paintings
Index
Picture credits

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