Born in controversy, christened in scorn by a sarcastic critic, and developed amid a continuing struggle for recognition and solvency, French Impressionism finally emerged as a powerful and inmmensely popular artistic movement whose appeal remains undiminished today.
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The return of the revised edition of the most popular volume on the subject offers inspired, authoritative text and hundreds of exquisite illustrations.
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Diane Kelder is Professor of Art History at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Great Book of Post-Impressionism and Stuart Davis: A Documentary Monograph in Modern Art.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Mediocre Reproductions,
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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.
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book on impressionism,
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too many black and white photos. would not buy this book again, as impressionism is about color.
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Great Gift,
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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.
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