A time and a place : Near Sydenham Hill by Camille Pissarro / Kathleen Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Kathleen.

Contributor:

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.

Kimbell Art Museum.

Series:

Kimbell Art Museum. Kimbell masterpiece series

Kimbell masterpiece series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903. Near Sydenham Hill.

Pissarro, Camille.

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903--Criticism and interpretation.

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.

Criticism and interpretation.

Sydenham (London, England)--In art.

Sydenham (London, England).

Kimbell Art Museum.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Near Sydenham Hill by Camille Pissarro

Place of Publication:

Fort Worth,Tex. : Kimbell Art Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. Although he received his artistic training in Paris in the late 1850s and 1860s, a seven-month stay in London, beginning in December of 1870, had a lasting impact on his artistic development. Fleeing Paris during the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War, Pissarro settled in the South London suburb of Norwood. He explored London and reveled in the city's galleries and museums, where he admired the works of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Pissarro produced a number of paintings inspired by his surroundings, including Near Sydenham Hill, which depicts a distant view of Norwood, bordered by fields and flanked by trees. The loose brushstrokes and atmospheric effects of this painting are early indicators of the Impressionist style that Pissarro would pursue in the years after his return to France. Kathleen Adler analyzes this pivotal work in detail and uses it as a launching point for a larger discussion of the artist's life, circumstances, and artistic trajectory.

A Time and a Place is the fifth volume in the Kimbell Masterpieces Series. These richly illustrated books by leading experts focus on major works from the collection, presenting the latest advances in scholarship and new insights that will be of interest both to specialists and to the wider public. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pissarro's journey to South London

Pissarro and London

Pissarro and other French artists

Pissarro paints London

The painting : Near Sydenham Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300175776

0300175779

OCLC:

711045527