Our list of some of the best Impressionism books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Impressionism: The Movement That Transformed Western Art (2017)
- Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception (World of Art) (2000)
- The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
- Impressionism A&I (Art and Ideas) (1999)
- Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know (50…you Should Know) (2007)
- Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1991)
- Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: An Anthology (2007)
- The Private Lives of the Impressionists (2007)
- Inspired by Claude Monet Flower Impressionism Learn Art Styles the Easy Coloring Book Way Encourage Creativity & Artistry with Soft Unfinished Lines Inspiring Imagination by Artist Grace Divine (2019)
- Cezanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art (1986)
- 50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art (2018)
Impressionism: The Movement That Transformed Western Art (2017)
A comprehensive, accessible, and richly illustrated guide to impressionism—the perennially popular artistic movement that led to the radical renewal of Western art. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Rodin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and the other Impressionist artists burst onto the art scene in the second half of the nineteenth century, creating shock waves with their rebellious rejection of the academy’s strict rules dictating subject matter, style, and even color.
Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception (World of Art) (2000)
During the 1870s and 1880s, a loose group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subject matter that challenged the art prompted by the Academie Francaise and the Salons where “official” assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed.
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment.
Impressionism A&I (Art and Ideas) (1999)
A comprehensive study of one of the most popular art movements.
Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know (50…you Should Know) (2007)
No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cézanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seurat, and Pisarro. Each piece is given a brief overview establishing its place in the Impressionist pantheon as well as in its artist’s oeuvre.
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1991)
“Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hierarchy of theater boxes to the role of beer-hall waitresses. His mind and eye are as supple as his lucid prose, and his command of sociological data is staggering.
Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: An Anthology (2007)
The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
The Private Lives of the Impressionists (2007)
Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings.
Inspired by Claude Monet Flower Impressionism Learn Art Styles the Easy Coloring Book Way Encourage Creativity & Artistry with Soft Unfinished Lines Inspiring Imagination by Artist Grace Divine (2019)
Inspired by Claude MonetFlower ImpressionismLearn Art Styles the Easy Coloring Book WayEncourage Creativity & Artistry with Soft Unfinished Lines Inspiring Imaginationby Artist Grace Divine(For Fun & Entertainment Purposes Only) This is a new sort of coloring book that besides exercising coloring skills, it inspires creativity and artistry. This is because the drawings are impressionistic in style. The lines are in different shades and some of them are unfinished.
Cezanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art (1986)
Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne’s painting. He shows how Cézanne’s style met the emerging criteria of a “technique of originality” and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism.
50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art (2018)
The latest volume in this beautifully produced and affordable series introduces readers to the major developments in the history of modern art—from Realism to the New Leipzig School. The story of modern art begins with a revolution—when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor of depicting life as it really was.
Best Impressionism Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf
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A Companion to Impressionism
Author(s): André Dombrowski
ID: 3153551, Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2021, Size: 33 Mb, Format: pdf
Technique and Practice of Impressionism.: Techniques and Methods - Color Theory.
Author(s): JULIO DUCURON
ID: 2815440, Publisher: , Year: 2020, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Author(s): Nathalia Brodskaïa
ID: 2339225, Publisher: Parkstone International, Year: 2018, Size: 114 Mb, Format: epub
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