The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Café concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities across Europe as more people wanted access to performances and musical education. The approximately 150 artworks included in this handsomely illustrated volume, by major artists including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, James McNeill Whistler, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pierre Bonnard, trace the growing presence of music in painting, and include depictions of public performances—brass bands, circuses, cabarets, orchestras, operas, festivals–-as well as more intimate scenes featuring parlor music and music lessons.

In Concert!: Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910

Arts & Photography

Thomson, Belinda

Frank, Frédéric

Music

Editions Hazan, Paris

Gauguin by Himself (By Himself Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

LITTLE BROWN & CO @

Making extensive use of new research and material, Belinda Thomson's incisive text gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century. Gauguin's work-- painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics--is discussed in the light of his public persona, his relations with his contemporaries, his exhibitions and their critical reception. Drawing on the recently published edition of Gauguin's letters up to 1885 and on his exchange of correspondence with Vincent and Theo Van Gogh as well as journals and other writings, the author also reveals the private world, beliefs and aspirations of the controversial artist. 182 illus., 31 in color.

Gauguin (World of Art)

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

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. What has been called "the revolutionary nature of the Impressionist enterprise" emerged from political radicalism, belief in science and individualism, and a view of art true to modern life and to immediate visual perception. In all these respects, Impressionism initiated the radical tendencies of modern art. Today the revolutionary aims of Impressionist artists are generally overlooked. Impressionist art has been marketed more successfully than any other style: the price of Impressionist paintings surpasses that of the Old Masters, exhibitions draw blockbuster crowds, and books and mass reproductions are ubiquitous. In her perceptive new survey, Belinda Thomson challenges both sentimentalized and simplistic views of Impressionism. Drawing upon recently discovered documents--critical reviews and letters between artists, writers, and dealers--she illuminates the thinking and the personal lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors and experiences that allowed Impressionism to develop when it did. She investigates the family background of the Impressionists, the importance of the art market and collecting, and the influence of the critical reception to their exhibitions. 250 illustrations, 200 in color.

Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception (World of Art)

A dazzling selection of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, as well as some lesser-known masterpieces, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Nearly 130 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh continues to exert a powerful fascination over viewers and historians. This superb book offers readers a selection of the artist’s most unforgettable canvases, as well as some lesser-known examples, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The volume explores the works in the context of Van Gogh’s short but brilliant career, in which frequent spells of isolation were paired with lively engagement with his peers and the popular ideas of his time. Additionally, Van Gogh’s continuous stream of letters written to family and friends―one of the most important archival resources of nineteenth-century art―provides a narrative thread around which this study develops. In the text, art historian Belinda Thomson considers Van Gogh as a cosmopolitan figure who combined his art experiences and native traditions absorbed in Holland and in Victorian England, and later succeeded in making his mark upon the painting scene in France at one of its richest periods.
This book will be a welcome resource for art lovers, offering a different take on one of history’s most interesting artists. 170 color illustrations

Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces

Gauguin New ed (World of Art) /anglais

Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, dismantling and reassembling the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century. The arbitrary color, exaggerated forms, and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators. In this study Belinda Thomson introduces the artists responsible for these important and influential stylistic changes and sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts.

Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art)

Cambridge University Press

Discusses the works of such artists as Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, explains how they differed from the impressionists, and assesses their place in modern art

The Post-Impressionists

Phaidon Press

Edouard is widely recognised as one of the most brilliant and sensuous painters of the twentieth century. He was a quiet and perceptive observer, whose paintings are both tender and intriguing in theie portrayal of human relationships. This monograph follows his development from his early association with the Nabis painters, his small-scale interiors and his sumptuous but refined use of colour, to his theatre decorations and later portraits. Other work by the author includes "The Post Impressionists" and "Gauguin".

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In Concert!: Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910

Gauguin by Himself (By Himself Series)

Gauguin (World of Art)

Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception (World of Art)

Gauguin (World of Art)

Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces

Gauguin New ed (World of Art) /anglais

Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art)

The Post-Impressionists

Vuillard