THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR LEGACY: With 235 Full Color and 242 Black &White Illustrations.

huge heavy thick blue gilt lettered hardbound folio. very large & heavy ("coffee table" size book~ a real door stopper~ 10.5 lbs ), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic. very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiniest bit of rubbing at spine top & bottom. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ . first printing ( # 1 in # line) of this edition. "Peviously Published In Two Volumes (@$150) As The Impressionists: A Retrospective & The Post~Impressionists: A Restrospective. " ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. 728p. glossy full page full color plates througout, including 2 foldout of which one is a double foldout of Monet’s "Green Reflections". b&w photo illustrations throughout. acknowledgments. bibliographic index. chronology. picture credits. index. art. 19th century painting. art history. biography. autobiography. art criticism. philosophy. european history. 19th century literature. 20th century art history. ~ In 1874 a group of young artists, in opposition to the established authority of the Salon and the Academy, decided to show their work directly to the public in an exhibition which they organized themselves. The artists forming the core of this group~Pissarro, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne, Monet, Renoir and Morisot~ came to be known as the "Impressionists." Seen to be following the independent spirit of Manet, they were immediately identified as the avant~garde and their exhibition became an historic landmark in the development of modern art. Today we tend to see the landdscapes of Impressionist paintings as perfect images af nature, but when they were painted the appearance af these canvases was startling and seemed radical to many critics and other contemporary artists. Then, in 1910, the critic Roger Fry organized an exhibition at the Grafton Galleries, London, of avant~garde painting which included works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse. This exhibition became as important a landmark in the official histories of modern art as the Armory Show in America. The featured artists did not belong to a single unified movement defined or recognized at the time, and Fry, unsure how to label the exhibition, and losing patience at the last minute, said, "Oh , let's just call them Post~Impressionists; at any rate, they came after the Impressionists. " But "'Post~Impressionism" was not a name which Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat or any of the artists of the period would have applied to themselves. This was a period of reexamination, of moving past certain aspects of Impressionism and of coming to grips with the isolation that avant~garde art had imposed on the individual artist. It was a period in which the Impressionist emphasis on the construction of painting purely by means of color had left artists with the question of how basic form related to their own feelings and to nature. The Impressionists and Their Legacy, a joining of The Impressionists: A Retrospective and The Post~Impressionists: A Retrospective, tells the story of how the personal struggles, debates, problems and solutions that arose when new ways of painting developed quickly led in unforeseen directions and challenged the traditional means of representing the world through art. The documents in this book ~letters and recorded comments by the artists themselves, as well as selections by notable contemporaries incuding Baudelaire, Zola, Valery, Mallarme , Huysmans, Laforgue and Proust~show how artists and critics during and in the aftermath of Impressionism did describe themselves: how they responded to tradition, to each other and to the kaleidoscope of the contemporary scene. The ever~expanding interpretation of Impressionsim and its legacy within the changing world o. …