The Impressionists
Published on 4. September 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-500-27849-9 (ISBN)
Description
An extended and highly readable introduction covers the background to the movement, its heroic years, its followers and an account of the masters in their later years.
Full-page colour reproductions of over 100 paintings are faced by informative and intriguing descriptions: short biographies of thirty of the artists and a bibliography make this a highly useful reference work as well as a pleasure to browse.
Artists featured are: Bazille * Bonnard * Boudin * Cassatt * Cezanne * Constable * Corot * Courbet * Daubigny * Degas * Fantin-Latour * Gauguin * Jongkind * Manet * Millet * Monet * Morisot * Pissarro * Renoir * Rousseau * Sargent * Seurat * Sickert * Signac * Sisley * Steer * Toulouse-Lautrec * Van Gogh * Vuillard * Whistler
Full-page colour reproductions of over 100 paintings are faced by informative and intriguing descriptions: short biographies of thirty of the artists and a bibliography make this a highly useful reference work as well as a pleasure to browse.
Artists featured are: Bazille * Bonnard * Boudin * Cassatt * Cezanne * Constable * Corot * Courbet * Daubigny * Degas * Fantin-Latour * Gauguin * Jongkind * Manet * Millet * Monet * Morisot * Pissarro * Renoir * Rousseau * Sargent * Seurat * Sickert * Signac * Sisley * Steer * Toulouse-Lautrec * Van Gogh * Vuillard * Whistler
Reviews / Votes
'Informative and stimulating' - Artists and IllustratorsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
108 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 303 mm
Width: 251 mm
Weight
1590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-27849-9 (9780500278499)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
William Gaunt (1900-1980) was a British art historian and artist, who studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, and is well known for his books on British 19th-century art.
Content
The background; channels of communication; formative years; wartime interlude; the heroic decade; turning points; the masters in their later years; modern appraisal.