The Pelican History of Art Series. 192 black and white plates in separate section at back. Dust jacket rubbed at top of spine. Some ink on bottom of book block, otherwise very good.

Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1740-1880 (Hist of Art)

Arts & Photography

Novotny, Fritz

History & Criticism

Puffin

From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir, this book outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture in Europe during the 19th century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, the author nevertheless charts the currents in what was predominantly a century of Naturalism and also - whilst artists were increasingly preoccupied with "the inner man" - of great landscape-painting when Friedrich, Corot and the Impressionists proper added light and atmosphere to the former achievements of the great Dutch masters.

Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1780-1880 (Hist of Art)

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880: Third Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)

Yale University Press

Toulouse-Lautrec(View amazon detail page)ASIN:  0907853714

Toulouse-Lautrec

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This is the first English text on both sides of the Atlantic to unlock fully the secrets of Impressionist methodology for the connoisseur and art enthusiast alike, and it is illustrated in full color with some of the artists' finest works. So new was this style in 1874 that when, on 30 April, a group of young painters first showed their work in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar, the public was shocked by what it saw. These landscapes and portraits, painted in pure, brilliant colors and with short, swift brushstrokes, flew in the face of tradition. Traditionalists coined the term "Impressionists" as an insult. These painters had no concern for grand historical subjects. Rather, they sought to reproduce their immediate environment as it appeared to the eye, in all its atmospheric richness and untainted by traditional notions of "art." Fleeting effects of color and the play of light on the objects are the hallmark of this style.

The Great Impressionists

Prestel Pub