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THE IMPRESSIONIST PRINT
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| By: |
Michel Melot, Caroline Beamish (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300067925 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300067927 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 November, 1996 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Degas, Pissaro, Renoir and other impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing such works as black-and-white etchings, aquatints, dry points and colour lithographs. This study aims to provide an understanding of the impressionist prints. |
| Synopsis: |
Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Bracquemond, Manet, Whistler-these and other Impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing black and white etchings, aquatints, dry points, and color lithographs that exhibited the same easy yet subtle attraction that makes their oil paintings so beloved. In this beautiful book, an eminent authority examines the prints of these painter-printmakers, providing a new understanding of Impressionism and of contemporary printmaking. Drawing on discoveries of the last two decades and on his own research, Michel Melot locates the sources and influences of the prints and analyzes their techniques-particularly in monotypes and embossed prints. In so doing he reveals the close ties between the Impressionist movement and the rebirth of artists' prints in the second half of the nineteenth century. His analysis of the relations among artists, the art market, art criticism, collectors, and political institutions makes Impressionism appear less like a miracle and more a response to the social and economic upheavals of the nineteenth century. |
| Illustrations: |
240 b-w + 60 color illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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