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The Great Book of French Impressionism
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
Author: Diane Kelder
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2000-09
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Label: Abbeville Press
Number Of Pages: 400
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The Great Book of French Impressionism celebrates the richness and exuberance of the Impressionists's world--a world of light and color, of sunlit fields and shimmering waterscapes, of bustling city views and intimate domestic scenes. The 400 illustrations in this handsomely designed volume faithfully capture the subtle nuances of light and keen perception that make French Impressionist paintings unique. This edition features recent scholarship, more complete backmatter, and an expanded index.
In her thoughtful and cogent text, art historian Diane Kelder traces the development of Impressionism from its roots in landscape and realist painting through its focus on modern urban life to its ultimate goal: to fix on canvas the fleeting moods and effects of nature in an ever-changing world. The author weaves into her narrative fascinating anecdotes and excerpts form contemporary essays and letters, examines in detail the lives and works of all the major Impressionists and Post-Impressionsits, including Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, and Cezanne, and shows how their work influenced others, ultimately giving rise to the new art of the twentieth century.
400 illustrations, 229 in full color
400 pages
11 x 11"
Trade Cloth
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Customer Reviews
Great Gift 
2007-03-11
I bought this book as a retirement gift for a friend. I am not an art expert by any means, but before I bought this book, I looked through numerous other art books and thought that the colors were muddy and unattactive in many of them and there were relativley few reproductions that I would want to look at. This book has a large selection of excellent color prints of wellknown impressionists' works. Much better quality then others I have looked at. A good buy for the money.
Very Mediocre Reproductions 
2006-06-15
I'm a native of Chicago, where the Art Institute has the largest collection of French Impressionism outside of Paris. So I've seen many of the originals of the works in this book. I'm also a photographer, so I have a critical eye, and I know how hard it is to get a good reproduction in a book of a work of art. Nonetheless, this book contains some of the worst prints I've seen. The colors are flat and lifeless and the shadows are clipped, which has blocked up the blacks and therefore ruined the contrast.
There's lot of in-depth information on the history of the art form. But visually it's a stinker. If you've never seen the magnificent work of the impressionists, this book will NOT ignite your interest in this genre, it's just too poorly printed.
This Book Is Beloved By Two Generations in My Family 2006-04-23
I first saw this book at my grandmother's. She would put it on a console table which greeted people entering the living room from the foyer. She always had the book open to a different painting--you never knew which one it would be. I became so interested, and learned so much from her by asking about the paintings, that eventually, as an adult, I knew I had to have one too. So I bought one for myself and have used it to teach my 6yr. old about Impressionism. She doesn't really understand, but she likes the little girls (Renoir, Cassat) :) -Beryl
