Impressionism in Britain
Published on 20. March 1995
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-300-06334-9 (ISBN)
Description
McConkey demonstrates how their persistences moved Victorian painting away from stale classicism and literary anecdote, to a modern British art of colour, light and form, many examples of which are presented in this study.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
50 b&w illustrations, 150 colour plates, chronology, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1223 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-06334-9 (9780300063349)
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Content
Impressionism in Britain - a survey of French painting in Britain; plein-air painting in England; artists' colonies in France and Britain; "The National Schoool in Peril" - the new English art club versus the academy; naturalism and the "tache"; The London Impressionists, Anna Robins; re-defining "Modern Life"; Edwardian arcadia - the stour and the Seine; French Impressionism revisited.