The Impressionist and the City by Richard R Brettell
Camille Pissarro is perhaps best known for the landscape paintings of his early career, yet in the final decade of his life (1893-1903) he began to depict urban scenes and his paintings from this period, of Paris, Rouen and the busy ports of Dieppe and Le Havre formed an important component of his artistic output. At this time Pissarro, like Monet, started to work on canvases in series, ofthen pointing several simultaneously and discarding one temporarily when the light, the weather or his mood altered. He started all of them at the scene and worked with extraordinary speed and deftness. In this book, the authors set Pissarro's cityscapes in their broad art-historical context, looking also at contemporary treatments of the urban scene by Vuillard, Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec. Using Pissarro's extensive correspondence from this period, they reveal the artist's own attitude towards his final works. The book includes a catatogue of Pissarro's urban series, each one introduced by an overview covering the history of the cityscape pictured and the production, exhibition history and early critical reception of the series. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Pissarro's cityscape paintings at the Dallas Museum of Art (November 15, 1992 - January 31, 1993). The exhibition will then be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 7 to June 6, 1993 and at the Royal Academy in London from July 2 to October 10, 1993.
Joachim Pissarro is curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of MoMA, New York. He is the author of several works on Impressionism, including a monograph on Pissarro (his great-grandfather) published in 1993. Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, an art historian and a direct descendant of the famous art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, has devoted the past ten years to researching and writing the Pissarro critical catalogue at the Wildenstein Institute.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300053500 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300053509 |
| Title | The Impressionist and the City |
| Author | Richard R Brettell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1992-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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