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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966225703321

Autore

Brodskai︠a︡ N. V (Natalʹi︠a︡ Valentinovna)

Titolo

Impressionism / / Nathalia Brodskaïa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Parkstone International, [2012?]

ISBN

9781283952422

1283952424

9781780428017

1780428014

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Art of century collection

Disciplina

759.06

Soggetti

Impressionism (Art)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND ACADEMIC PAINTING; THE FIRST IMPRESSIONIST EXHIBITION; ÉDOUARD MANET; CLAUDE MONET; PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR; ALFRED SISLEY; CAMILLE PISSARRO; EDGAR DEGAS; BERTHE MORISOT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"Ipaint what I see and not what it pleases others to see." What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the movement of Impressionism? Without a doubt this singularity was explained when, shortly before his death, Claude Monet wrote: "I remain sorry to have been the cause of the name given to a group the majority of which did not have anything Impressionist."In this work, Nathalia Brodskaïa examines the contradictions of this late 19th-century movement through the paradox of a group who, while forming a coherent