Modernity and modernism : French painting in the nineteenth century / Francis Frascina ... [et. al.].

By: Frascina, Francis [author]
Series: Modern art--practices and debatesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, in association with the Open University, c1993Description: 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300055137; 0300055145 (paper)Subject(s): Painting, French -- 19th century | Impressionism (Art) -- France | Modernism (Art) -- FranceDDC classification: 759.409034 LOC classification: ND547.5.I4 | M64 1993
Contents:
Introduction / by Briony Fer. -- Modern practices of art and modernity / by Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina. -- Impressionism, modernism and originality / by Charles Harrison. -- Gender and representation / by Tamar Garb.
Summary: This is the first in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The authors seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. The books present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between about 1848 and 1900.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 290) and index.

Introduction / by Briony Fer. --
Modern practices of art and modernity / by Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina. --
Impressionism, modernism and originality / by Charles Harrison. --
Gender and representation / by Tamar Garb.


This is the first in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The authors seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. The books present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between about 1848 and 1900.

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