Lasting Impressions : The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture / Jesse Matz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matz, Jesse, author.

Series:

Literature Now.

Literature Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impressionism in literature.

Art and literature.

Impressionism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely "impressionistic" about culture today. Jesse Matz considers these two legacies-the positive and the negative-to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. FIRST AND LASTING

2. THE IMPRESSIONIST ADVERTISEMENT

3. PHOTOGÉNIE FROM RENOIR TO GANCE TO RENOIR

4. THE "IMAGE OF AFRICA" FROM CONRAD TO ACHEBE TO ADICHIE

5. THE IMPRESSIONIST FRAUD

6. CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSIONS, KITSCH AESTHETICS

7. THE PSEUDO-IMPRESSIONIST NOVEL

8. THINKING MEDIUM

CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780231543057

0231543050

OCLC:

967876335