|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
|
POST
IMPRESSIONISM "A
detailed and highly entertaining study." —New Horizon
"May very
well become the most recommended [book] on its subject . . . Denvir
has brought a great deal of clarity of two decades of European
art in which diversification and conflict were to replace academic
hegemony." —TES
|
|
What
happened after Impressionism? What did it lead to? From Seurat's Pointillism
in the 1880s to the expressive use of color by the Fauves in the early
1900s, to Post-Impressionist artists—Cezanne, Gauguin, Van
Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Munch and more—artists were
constantly experimenting with new forms, techniques and subject matter
in a varied and ambivalent reaction to Impressionism. With liberal
quotations from artists, writers and critics, Bernard Denvir brings
Post-Impressionism to life: the different artistic groupings, the
effects of contemporary writing, music and politics, the influence
of Japanese art and "primitive" sculpture, and the spread of artistic
practice into printmaking.