From Millet to Leger: Essays in Social Art History

Author:   Robert L. Herbert
Publisher:   Yale University Press
ISBN:  

9780300097061


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 September 2002
Format:   Hardback
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From Millet to Leger: Essays in Social Art History


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The first three essays explore how artists in the second half of the 19th century were attracted to images of rural life and landscape as a reaction to growing industrialization and urbanization, at the same time creating new techniques and pictorial devices whose radical inventions opposed the dominant forms and subjects of academic art. Four essays then address issues of overt social and political opposition among artists, demonstrating that these oppositions were in fact embraced within modernist capitalism as correctives to outmoded traditions. The concluding essays centre on Leger and the period from 1910 to 1925, in which there was a sudden acceptance of industrial imagery and the creation of forms that expressed the dynamism and fragmentation of modern culture.

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Author:   Robert L. Herbert
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9780300097061


ISBN 10:   0300097069
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Robert L. Herbert is professor emeritus of humanities at Mount Holyoke College. He is also the author of Seurat: Drawings and Paintings, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts. Monet on the Normondy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886, and Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society, all published by Yale University Press.

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