The Impressionist PrintYale University Press, 1996 M01 1 - 296 pages Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Bracquemond, Manet, Whistler--these and other Impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing black and white etchings, aquatints, dry points, and color lithographs that exhibited the same easy yet subtle attraction that makes their oil paintings so beloved. In this beautiful book, an eminent authority examines the prints of these painter-printmakers, providing a new understanding of Impressionism and of contemporary printmaking. Drawing on discoveries of the last two decades and on his own research, Michel Melot locates the sources and influences of the prints and analyzes their techniques--particularly in monotypes and embossed prints. In so doing he reveals the close ties between the Impressionist movement and the rebirth of artists' prints in the second half of the nineteenth century. His analysis of the relations among artists, the art market, art criticism, collectors, and political institutions makes Impressionism appear less like a miracle and more a response to the social and economic upheavals of the nineteenth century. |
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
Mechanical Reproduction | 21 |
8 | 32 |
21 | 98 |
The Revival of the Artists | 108 |
Henri Guérard | 118 |
Desboutin and De Nittis | 129 |
11 | 152 |
Rodin | 203 |
Berthe Morisot | 210 |
Degass Women in the Bath | 220 |
The Arrival of Colour | 231 |
Van Gogh | 248 |
Pissarros Bathers | 256 |
Vollard and the Impressionists | 263 |
Forain the last Impressionist | 271 |
Common terms and phrases
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