After impressionism : inventing modern art
Stevens, Mary Anne2023
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Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction. The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Czanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century. This fully illustrated catalogue will contain four essays, introductions to each city of ferment and biographies of the artists.
Main title:
After impressionism : inventing modern art / Mary Anne Stevens ; with contributions by Maria Alambritis [and 7 others] ; foreword by Gabriele Finaldi.
Author:
Stevens, Mary Anne, author, curatorAlambritis, Maria, contributorFinaldi, Gabriele, writer of forewordNational Gallery (Great Britain), host institution
Imprint:
London : National Gallery Global, 2023.©2023
Collation:
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Published by to accompany the exhibition 'After impressionism: inventing modern art', The National Gallery, London, 25 March-13 August 2023.Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
ISBN:
9781857096958 (hbk)9781857096958
Dewey class:
709.04
LC class:
N6447
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
537053
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft | 709.04 STE | Available |