Description |
167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
Contents |
Preface / Doreen Bolger -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Impressionism and the Modern Portrait / John House -- On Portraits / Paul Valery -- Catalogue of the Exhibition / Sona Johnston and Susan Bollendorf |
Summary |
"This book accompanies the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the portraits made by the Impressionist masters and their immediate predecessors. Breaking free from portraiture's conventions, the Impressionists expanded the notion of a portrait to reflect not only an individual's appearance but also his or her everyday surroundings. From traditional, tightly rendered likenesses to light-filled, loosely brushed paintings, the works in this volume depict a variety of subjects: friends, family members, patrons, public figures, and the artists themselves. Reproduced are key works by fourteen pivotal figures including Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which reveal the astonishing originality and beauty of the Impressionists' portraits."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art and other museums |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index |
Subject |
Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Exhibitions.
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Portrait painting -- France -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Portrait painting, French -- Exhibitions.
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Portrait painting -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
House, John, 1945-2012.
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Bollendorf, Susan.
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Baltimore Museum of Art.
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LC no. |
99023337 |
ISBN |
0847822109 hardcover |
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0912298715 pb |
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