Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art

by Laura Anne Kalba

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumi re brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271077026
• ISBN13: 9780271077024
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 9.4"