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The art of impressionism : painting technique & the making of modernity / Anthea Callen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callen, Anthea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impressionism (Art)--Technique.
- Impressionism (Art).
- Painting--Technique.
- Painting.
- Plein air painting--Technique.
- Plein air painting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : 281 illustrations (some color)
- Other Title:
- Art of impressionism : painting technique and the making of modernity
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- "This important book is the first full-scale exploration of Impressionist technique. Focusing on the easel-painted work of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Morisot, Caillebotte, Sisley and Degas in the period before 1900, it places their methods and materials in a historical perspective and evaluates their origins, novelty and meanings within the visual formation of urban modernity. Drawing on scientific studies of pigments and materials, artists' treatises, colormens' [sic] archives, and contemporary and modern accounts, Anthea Callen demonstrates how raw materials and paintings are profoundly interdependent. She analyses the material constituents of oil painting and the complex processes of 'making' entailed in all aspects of artistic production, discussing in particular oil painting methods for landscapists and the impact of plein air light on figure painting, studio practice and display"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Tradition and innovation
- The Blank canvas
- Canvas, texture, and materiality
- Grounds for oil painting
- Ground colours and the paint layer
- Light of reason, shades of meaning
- The matter of impressionism
- Making light modern
- The palette: from tonal to spectral
- 'Artless" simplicity
- The colour of modernity
- Framing the debate.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 30, 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300238136
- 0300238134
- OCLC:
- 1042082957
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