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From the pen of one of Amherst, Massachusetts's most important
women comes an intriguing glimpse into the nineteenth century.
Twice, Orra White Hitchcock traveled with her husband, Edward, a
famous geologist and president of Amherst College. She kept
meticulous diary entries of their journeys, observing with wit and
frankness the people and places she encountered. Orra writes
behind-the-scenes accounts of a scientific conference in Edinburgh
and of a visit with some of the century's most notable contemporary
scientists in London. She describes in stunning and honest detail
Sunday services, an international antiwar congress in Frankfurt,
and slavery on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. Because she was
an open-minded woman, her pages are rich in entertaining stories of
botanical gardens, public entertainments, and the shops of London
and Paris. She also indulges the reader with romantic descriptions
of memorable landscapes in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and
Switzerland. Spanning the ocean from America to Europe, Orra's
never-before-published travel journals offer a vivid, inside look
at one woman's unique experiences in a world moving toward
modernity.
"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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Drawings from Yale (Paperback)
Robert L. Herbert; Illustrated by Yale University Department of Art
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Renoir, My Father (Paperback, Main)
Dorothy Weaver, Jean Renoir, Randolph Weaver, Robert L. Herbert
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Discovery Miles 4 540
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In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such
masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of
the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting
Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of
fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he
worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging
talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double
portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished
art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir,
and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies
we have."
Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white
images.
From the pen of one of Amherst, Massachusetts's most important
women comes an intriguing glimpse into the nineteenth century.
Twice, Orra White Hitchcock traveled with her husband, Edward, a
famous geologist and president of Amherst College. She kept
meticulous diary entries of their journeys, observing with wit and
frankness the people and places she encountered. Orra writes
behind-the-scenes accounts of a scientific conference in Edinburgh
and of a visit with some of the century's most notable contemporary
scientists in London. She describes in stunning and honest detail
Sunday services, an international antiwar congress in Frankfurt,
and slavery on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. Because she was
an open-minded woman, her pages are rich in entertaining stories of
botanical gardens, public entertainments, and the shops of London
and Paris. She also indulges the reader with romantic descriptions
of memorable landscapes in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and
Switzerland. Spanning the ocean from America to Europe, Orra's
never-before-published travel journals offer a vivid, inside look
at one woman's unique experiences in a world moving toward
modernity.
The new scholarly series, "Van Gogh Studies" offers an
international platform for research into nineteenth century, West
European art history. The contributions focus on Vincent van Gogh
and his contemporaries and are written by internationally acclaimed
scholars and provide a richly variegated impression of this area of
study. The first issue reveals the diversity of the Eminence grise
series. Robert Herbert presents a major study about decorative
arts; the nineteenth century French art market and the Salon system
is the centrepiece of Robert Jensen and David Galenson's
contribution, while Elise Eckermann, June Hargrove and Caroline
Boyle-Turner provide remarkable monographs about Gauguin as a
painter and sculptor. Joan Greer elucidates in great detail on the
publication of Van Gogh's letters in the Flemish journal "Van Nu en
Straks" ("Today and Tomorrow") in 1893, while Louis van Tilborgh
researches and dates Van Gogh's stay in French painter Fernand
Cormon's studio.
In this rich, readable anthology, 16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about the theories that drive their work-from Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger's 1912 presentation of cubist theory to Henry Moore's comments, three decades later, on sculpture and primitive art. Newly added essays by Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, and Fernand Léger include observations on dada, surrealism, and the "machine esthetic." Challenging commentaries provide art historians and theorists with plenty of food for thought and continuing inspiration of all artists and art students.
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