The impressionist print / Michel Melot ; translated from the French by Caroline Beamish
1996, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #396190
ISBN: 0300067925
Physical description; 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Notes; Originally published: Paris : Flammarion, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-292) and index. English translation from the French of: L'estampe impressionniste. Contents; pt. 1. On the eve, 1850-70. Introduction ; The impetus of industry ; The persistence of the print ; A painter between two worlds: Charles-François Daubigny ; Mechanical reproduction ; 1850-2: Delâtre and Meryon ; 1852-7: Bracquemond, Millet, Legros ; Whistler and Seymour Haden ; Degas's self portrait ; 1859: the new art market ; 1861: the Society of Etchers ; Manet and the etching ; 1862: the artist's lithograph ; Manet and the lithographer ; 1863: the Salon des Refusés ; Jongkind ; Appian and the School of Lyon ; Constantin Guys ; The eleventh subscriber ; The discovery of Japan -- pt. 2. Day and night. War and revolution ; 1873: the Anvers Group ; The revival of the artist's lithograph ; 1874: the first Impressionist exhibition ; Henri Guérard ; Lepic and the Mobile Etching ; Desboutin and De Nittis ; Félix Buhot and 'La belle épreuve' ; Modern book-collecting ; Degas and his group ; Le Jour et la Nuit ; Pissarro and Degas: industrial progress ; The confection of rarity ; The value of the times ; The obliteration of the object ; Scenes from private life ; 1888: revival ; Whistler's Venetian suite ; 1883: the rôle of the rebels ; 1886: the last Impressionist exhibition -- pt. 3. The next day, 1886-1900. After Impressionism ; 1889: the Society of Painter-Printmakers ; Rodin ; Sisley ; Berthe Morisot ; Renoir ; Degas's Women in the bath ; Mary Cassatt ; The arrival of colour ; The monotypes of Degas ; Other monotype artists: Pissarro and Gauguin ; Gauguin and Primitivism ; Van Gogh ; Toulouse-Lautrec ; Pissarro's Bathers ; The success of the original print ; Vollard and the Impressionists ; The vogue for colour lithography ; Forain, the last Impressionist ; Conclusion. Subjects; 1800-1899. Prints, French 19th century. Impressionism (Art) France. Art and society France History 19th century. Prints 19th century. Impressionism (Art). Prints. Art and society. Prints, French. Impressionism (Art) France. Art and society France History 19th century. Art and society France History 19th century. Impressionism. Nineteenth century art. Printmaking Impressionism French France Art.
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