This is a remarkable book: it sets out to examine the conventional
view of the Impressionist movement and to show, for the first time,
how it was fully integrated into the social and cultural life of
its times; it ends by transforming the way we look at Impressionist
art. Robert Herbert explores the themes of leisure and entertain
ment which dominated the great Impressionist paintings and
illustrates this survey with many beautiful images. A vivid,
stimulating and fresh view of a very popular and important period
in art history. (Kirkus UK)
"Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism
immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert
rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a
dense and flexible context touching on everything from the
hierarchy of theater boxes to the role of beer-hall waitresses. His
mind and eye are as supple as his lucid prose, and his command of
sociological data is staggering. In this classic of art history,
both art and history are triumphantly reborn."-Robert Rosenblum,
New York University This remarkable book will transform the way we
look at Impressionist art. The culmination of twenty years of
research by a preeminent scholar in the field, it fundamentally
revises the conventional view of the Impressionist movement and
shows for the first time how it was fully integrated into the
social and cultural life of the times. Robert L. Herbert explores
the themes of leisure and entertainment that dominated the great
years of Impressionist painting between 1865 and 1885. Cafes, opera
houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and vacations by the sea
were the central subjects of the majority of these paintings, and
Herbert relates these pursuits to the transformation of Paris under
the Second Empire. Sumptuously illustrated with many of the most
beautiful Impressionist images, both familiar and unfamiliar, this
book presents provocative new interpretations of a wide range of
famous masterpieces. Artists are seen to be active participants in,
as well as objective witnesses to, contemporary life, and there are
many profound insights into the social and cultural upheaval of the
times. "A social history of Impressionist art that is truly about
the art, informed by a penetrating analysis of the ways in which
its pictorial structure and qualities communicate its social
content. Herbert brings that society to life, but above all he
makes some of the most familiar and frequently discussed works in
the history of art come wonderfully and vividly to life
again."-Theodore Reff, Columbia University Robert L. Herbert is
Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art at Yale University.
He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on
nineteenth-century French art.
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