The Great Book of French Impressionism: (Tiny Folio)

By Diane Kelder

Book Overview

The Great Book of French Impressionism celebrates the richness and exuberance of the Impressionists' world--a world of light and color, of sunlit fields and shimmering waterscapes, of bustling city views and intimate domestic scenes. This handsomely designed Tiny Folio packs over 200 full-color illustrations, faithfully capturing the subtle nuances of light and keen perception that make French Impressionist painting unique.

The text traces the development of Impressionism from its roots in landscape and Realist painting through its focus on modern urban life to its ultimate goal: to fix on canvas the fleeting moods and effects of nature in a world that stands still for no one. The works of the major Impressionists and Post Impressionists, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, and C?zanne, are featured and show how they influenced others in the movement, ultimately giving rise to the new art of the twentieth century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789204053
• ISBN13: 9780789204059
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 4.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book!

This book is such a beautiful book with the most gorgeous art work! If you love art and even if you do not you will enjoy it. I can't wait to display this book in our home for everyone to enjoy and inspire.

Great Gift

I bought this book as a retirement gift for a friend. I am not an art expert by any means, but before I bought this book, I looked through numerous other art books and thought that the colors were muddy and unattactive in many of them and there were relativley few reproductions that I would want to look at. This book has a large selection of excellent color prints of wellknown impressionists' works. Much better quality then others I have looked at. A good buy for the money.

This Book Is Beloved By Two Generations in My Family

I first saw this book at my grandmother's. She would put it on a console table which greeted people entering the living room from the foyer. She always had the book open to a different painting--you never knew which one it would be. I became so interested, and learned so much from her by asking about the paintings, that eventually, as an adult, I knew I had to have one too. So I bought one for myself and have used it to teach my 6yr. old about Impressionism. She doesn't really understand, but she likes the little girls (Renoir, Cassat) :) -Beryl