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Impressionism in Britain by Kenneth McConkey, Anna
Gruetzner Robins – Hardcover, 224 pages, Published by Yale
University Press, 1995
This beautiful book describes the activities of the French Impressionist
painters on their visits to Britain, tells how British collectors
and dealers disseminated their works, and explores the response
of artists from Britain and Ireland to the Impressionist movement.
British Impressionism by Kenneth McConkey –
Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Phaidon Press; 1st pbk. ed edition
(October 9, 1998)
British impressionism, like its American counterpart, has skulked
in the shadows of Monet, Renoir and other French favorites.
Here, in 132 excellent plates and an engaging text, is a comprehensive
survey of a movement that wore many faces, from Laura Knight's
intensely radiant beach scenes to Walter Sickert's urban world
refracted through a restricted palette and quirky narrative
technique. There is no doubt that the British impressionists
are cooler and more controlled than the French: Henry Herbert
La Thangue's landscapes, for example, impress with their solidity
even as their lyric poetry transports the viewer. Yet the British
were also adept at recording transitory moments, middle-class
pleasures, effects of light and atmosphere. McConkey, who teaches
in England, follows the vagaries of a movement enlivened by
American expatriates James Whistler and John Singer Sargent
and French expatriate Lucien Pissarro, son of the famous impressionist,
Camille. —Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
Impressionist London by Eric Shanes – 1st Edition,
Hardcover, 184 pages, Published by Abbeville Press, 1994
Part art history, part social history, Impressionist London
vivaciously chronicles the responses of French and other Impressionists
to that irrepressibly dynamic city. Turn-of-the-century London
was the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful city on earth.
Its seething activity proved a heady source of inspiration to
the French Impressionists, who painted more scenes of London—its
grassy parks, mysterious fogs, and bustling riverscapes—than
of any other city outside Paris.
Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled from war-torn France
to London in 1870 and produced some of their most appealing
work in the city, during both that visit and later sojourns.
Alfred Sisley created some of his finest and most lovely pictures
just outside London, finding particular inspiration in the regattas
that took place at Hampton Court. The young Vincent van Gogh
spent probably the happiest months of his life there, discovering
work by British painters and writers that would profoundly shape
the course of his career.
Other Impressionist-era artists who painted brilliant images
of the city are the visitors Giuseppe de Nittis and Andre Derain;
the expatriates James McNeill Whistler, James Tissot, and John
Singer Sargent; and British painters including Spencer Gore,
Walter Richard Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer.
Vividly written and elegantly designed, this book is filled
with exquisite paintings and rare archival images as well as
lively commentaries by artists and literary observers. It perfectly
captures the flavor of Impressionist London and the lives of
the painters it profoundly inspired.
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