Authors: Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Calendar, 112 pages
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Edition: Dsk Spi

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    A year's worth of the mastery of color and light from one of the world's premier Impressionist collections, with signature works from such artists as Degas, Monet, Homer, Renoir, Hassam, and Cassatt.

* Offers a strikingly diverse selection of Impressionist works, appealing to all lovers of fine art.

* This calendar features some of the world's most celebrated European Impressionist masters....

Authors: Jean-Dominique Rey. Denis Rouart.
Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
Publication Date: 2008-09-09


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    Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny. This volume is dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist’s childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet’s experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on water at different times of the day include paintings such as Impression, Sunrise (1872), which inspired the name of the impressionist movement. A critical text analyzes Monet’s ingenuity, audacity, and modernity, as well as his influence on other artists, from Zao Wou-ki to music to Shirley Goldfarb. This definitive catalog is completed by 210 color reproductions of the water lily paintings with annotated captions, period shots of Giverny by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, and rare documents including Monet’s personal letters to his optometrist regarding his failing eyesight, which has been linked to his development of the impressionist style. The large-format volume features an eight-page gatefold of the murals at the Orangerie in Paris, and it serves as both an accessible introductory work and a complete reference guide to an important component in the history of art....

Authors: H. Anna Suh.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Publication Date: 2006-10-30
Edition: 1

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    Throughout his life, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) wrote hundreds of letters, many to his brother Theo. Theo acted as patron, agent, and sounding board to the artist whose life was fraught with poverty, a struggle for recognition, and alternating fits of madness and lucidity. Van Gogh also corresponded with other family members and fellow artists, including his dear friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. His letters, originally collected by Theo’s wife, Johanna, exhibit Van Gogh’s genius, his depth of observation, and his feelings in their most naked form.

In Vincent Van Gogh these letters have been excerpted, newly translated, and set side-by-side with more than 250 of his drawings and paintings. Van Gogh’s words and art illuminate each other and reveal a portrait of the artist as never seen before. The commentary of H. Anna Suh frames Van Gogh’s work and puts his art, letters, life, and struggles into rich context. The result is this timeless jewel of a collection, unlike any other Van Gogh book that has gone before....

Authors: Ruth Butler.
Hardcover, 376 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2008-06-23


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Authors: Mike Venezia.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Publication Date: 1989-03


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    Presents a biography of Van Gogh...

Authors: Christoph Heinrich.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Date: 2000-05-29
Edition: Revised

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    Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the 1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively experienced, but rather that which takes place "between the motif and the artist". In their open, merely tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, his water lily paintings - created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde - point the way to the developments of the future....

Authors: Mike Venezia.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: Childrens Press Chicago
Publication Date: 1990-05

Authors: Ellen Williams.
Hardcover, 102 pages
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Publication Date: 1999-01-01


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    This elegant book pairs some of the world’s beloved masterpieces with the exact locations where they were painted, from the historic neighborhoods along the Seine to the bustling grand boulevards to the cafes and dance halls of Montmartre. Full-color reproductions and period restaurant recommendations are included.

Three walking tours follow in the footsteps of Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas, and others to the precise sites where they set up their easels -- placing the city of today side by side with the scenes in their masterpieces. The paintings unveil a Paris still visible -- if you stop to look....

    One could hardly visit Paris without viewing the work of the French impressionist painters, whose innovative take on the City of Light left an indelible mark on the art world. This charming little hardcover, perfect for the pocket or backpack, allows travelers to venture beyond the museum walls and trace the footsteps of these great artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Edouard Manet, just to name a few. Three city walking tours--surprisingly manageable considering the city's size--cover not only the sites depicted in many of their paintings, but also "the studios in which they worked, the buildings where they lived, and--this being Paris--the cafes in which they gathered." Expertly organized and packed with fascinating facts, including topographical and historical notes, detailed city maps and legends, recommendations for conveniently located restaurants, anecdotes about the artists and their work, and reproductions of the paintings, The Impressionists' Paris "brings the museum experience out into the real world, to better appreciate both the art and the city, one through the other." --Stefanie Hargreaves...

Authors: Robert L. Herbert.
Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1991-07-24


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    Sumptuously illustrated with many of the most beautiful Impressionist images, this book presents provocative new interpretations of a wide range of famous masterpieces, showing how they were fully integrated into the social and cultural life of the times....

Authors: Timothy J. Clark.
Paperback, 396 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1999-10-18
Edition: Rev Sub

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    The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T. J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others as an attempt to give form to that modernity and seek out its typical representatives--be they bar-maids, boaters, prostitutes, sightseers, or petits bourgeois lunching on the grass. The central question of The Painting of Modern Life is this: did modern painting as it came into being celebrate the consumer-oriented culture of the Paris of Napoleon III, or open it to critical scrutiny? The revised edition of this classic book includes a new preface by the author....