Jennifer A. Thompson
Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s stellar collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, this handsome volume includes iconic works such as Paul Cézanne’s Large Bathers, Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Edgar Degas’s Interior, Édouard Manet’s Le Bon Bock, Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Great Bathers.
Nathalia Brodskaïa
The Post-Impressionist period was one of solitary painters; Gauguin, Sisley, Cézanne, Van Gogh etc… “There is no longer a unique school. There are a few groups, but even they break up constantly. All these movements remind me of moving geometrical pieces in a kaleidoscope, which separate suddenly only to better come together again.
Belinda Thomson
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.
William James Williams and Marina Bessonova
Impressionism and Post – Impressionism: The Hermitage (Leningrad), The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) and The National Gallery of Art (Washington).
Ingo F. Walther
Traces the career of the post-Impressionist whose principles of color & composition strongly influenced modern painting, from his earliest works to his signature South Seas paintings of island life.
Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal
The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MaryAnne Stevens
Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction.
Christopher Lloyd
Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Ce´zanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the impressionists and post-impressionists in the context of late nineteenth-century France, explaining why these particular works are as important as these artists’ paintings in the representation of modernity.
Thomas Parsons and Iain Gale
Impressionism revolutionized the nature of European painting, giving a new importance to the individual vision, so that artists painted what they saw and felt. But what did their successors make of this new emancipation? Where did it all lead? This is the question to which Thomas Parson and Iain Gale have addressed themselves in this book which reveals what is in effect one of the most exciting periods in the history of modern painting.
Robert L. Herbert
Georges Seurat, painter of Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, had a meteoric career that ended in 1891 with his death at age 31. In this generously illustrated book, the leading specialist on Seurat examines the entire range of the artist’s work, focusing on individual paintings and drawings and interpreting the personal and social meanings of their subjects.