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22%OFFJames H. Rubin - Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh - 9780520248014 - V9780520248014
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Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh

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Description for Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh Hardback. Offers a major reevaluation of one of art history's popular and important art movements. This book demonstrates not only that the industrial and demographic revolutions of the nineteenth century had an impact on art, but also that impressionism was the first art historical movement to embrace such changes. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 color illustrations, 125 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 262 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1088.
This book offers a major reevaluation of one of art history's most popular and important art movements. In "Impressionism and the Modern Landscape", James Rubin shifts the focus from familiar scenes of pleasure - the beautiful countryside, people at leisure - to a landscape changing as the result of productivity, technology, and urbanization. He demonstrates not only that the industrial and demographic revolutions of the nineteenth century had a profound impact on art, but also that impressionism was the first art historical movement to embrace such changes.Looking principally at Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Armand Guillaumin, and Gustave Caillebotte, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520248014
SKU
V9780520248014
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About James H. Rubin
James Rubin is Professor of Art History at Stony Brook, the State University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Cooper Union. He is the author of eight books, including Courbet, Impressionism, and Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life.

Reviews for Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh
"A fresh perspective into a little-noticed aspect of the impressionist movement... Refreshingly insightful." Art Times / Css Publications

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