Gustave Caillebotte
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300037228 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said A comprehensive, balanced view of Caillebotte's work.. Kirk Varnedoe gives us, in Gustave Caillebotte, not only a beautifully reproduced compendium of the artist's major works, but an unusually insightful commentary on his place in the Impressionist movement. Perhaps most importantly, he offers a vision of Caillebotte that allows us to see him as more than a "minor" impressionist, but as an original precursor of modernism who remained true to his own unique vision despite the influences of his better known contemporaries. The importance of late nineteenth century photography, and especially the new, shorter "A comprehensive, balanced view of Caillebotte's work." according to A Customer. Kirk Varnedoe gives us, in Gustave Caillebotte, not only a beautifully reproduced compendium of the artist's major works, but an unusually insightful commentary on his place in the Impressionist movement. Perhaps most importantly, he offers a vision of Caillebotte that allows us to see him as more than a "minor" impressionist, but as an original precursor of modernism who remained true to his own unique vision despite the influences of his better known contemporaries. The importance of late nineteenth century photography, and especially the new, shorter 28 mm. lenses. 8 mm. lenses. it is 10 x 11" Ted H it is 10 x 11"it has 220 pages.it does have many color photos of his art workmany of the photos of the art work also appear in the book titled; Urban Impressionist. "The original" according to toronto. This is the book that really brought Caillebotte back into the public consciousness (at least in the English speaking world). I would only quibble with the word "uneven" --Caillebotte was a singular, original painter. He seems to have sprung out of nowhere (Bonnat was his teacher, but Bonnat was nothing like Caillebotte), and gone his own way. It is one of the gifts of the contemporary book scene (and now the web) that Caillebotte's paintings can be more widely circulated, since so few of them are in major museums, but rather scattered everywhere in private collectio
His pictures show us the world's sheer randomness as well as its patterns of order. From Publishers Weekly Caillebotte's wealth and youthfulness (he was 14 years younger than Degas) set him apart from the other French impressionists. His tautly focused realism, wide-angled spaces and cooly detached viewpoint upset his contemporaries, yet in today's cinematic culture his paintings resonate with familiarity. Like Munch and Van Gogh, Caillebotte manipulated perspective to produce overwrought sensations of depth. This superbly illustrated study by a New York University art professor does full justice, in text and pictures, to the "forgotten Impressionist." Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. He captured the boulevard's
A study of the life and work of Gustave Caillebotte - until recently the "forgotten man" of Impressionism.