Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art) [Paperback]

Belinda Thomson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 052164609X | ISBN-13: 978-0521646093 | Publication Date: July 13, 1998

Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, dismantling and reassembling the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century. The arbitrary color, exaggerated forms, and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators. In this study Belinda Thomson introduces the artists responsible for these important and influential stylistic changes and sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts.

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Book Description

Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling, the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century. The arbitrary color, exaggerated forms, and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052164609X
• ISBN-13: 978-0521646093
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,377,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not much of a book, January 26, 2008

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This review is from: Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art) (Paperback)

This is a little (6.76" W x 9.52" L x 0.37" H) survey (0.57 lbs) with 80 pages, 40 color plates, and 20 b&w illustrations fitting in a big pocket. Belinda Thomson describes the evolution of painting after the Impressionism within its historic context. It is not much of a book. Her ISBN: 0714826626 (titled The Post-Impressionists) is bigger and has more illustrations. Also ISBN: 0297777130, ISBN: 0064304000, or even ISBN: 9990705968 seem to have an advantage.