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Lust for Life
Author: Irving Stone
ISBN-10: 0099416425
ISBN-13: 9780099416425
Published: 1990-02-01
Publisher: Random House
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Book Description:
No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development of Van Gogh's art. The painter is brought to life not only as an artist but as a personality and this account of his violent, vivid and tormented life is a novel of rare compassion and vitality.
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Van Gogh: Up Close (National Gallery of Canada)
Author:
ISBN-10: 0300181299
ISBN-13: 9780300181296
Published: 2012-03-27
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Description:
This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career—from 1886 until his death in July 1890—an international team of leading scholars in the field examines Van Gogh's radical approach to the close-up and sets it in the context of contemporary and historical references, such as his hitherto unrecognized use of photography and his fascination with the Old Masters and with Japanese art and culture.One hundred key paintings dating from his arrival in Paris in 1886 to the end of his career show how Van Gogh experimented with unusual visual angles and the decorative use of color, cropping, and the flattening of his compositions. In some paintings he zoomed in on a tuft of grass or a single budding iris, while depicting shifting views of a field or garden in others. Van Gogh: Up Close not only reveals how these paintings became the most radical and innovative in the artist's body of work but also demonstrates that, far from being a spontaneous or undisciplined artist, Van Gogh was well aware of the history of art and was highly conscious of his efforts to break new ground with his work.
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Private Lives of the Impressionists
Author: Sue Roe
ISBN-10: 0099458349
ISBN-13: 9780099458340
Published: 2007-09-01
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
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Book Description:
Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Berthe Moriost and Mary Cassatt were all branded as lunatics, but today this is a roll-call of great artists, whose paintings evoke a unique atmosphere of harmony: languid landscapes flooded with light, shop-workers dancing on their day off, bars and gas-lit streets, the sunlit beach at Trouville. We all know these dazzling pictures - but how well do we know the Impressionists as people? This book tells their story. In a vivid and moving narrative, Sue Roe shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly twenty years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. Defying the hide-bound rules of the salon, they staged joint exhibitions and rebelled against artistic prejudice, moral tyranny and social hierarchy. Often rejected by their horrified parents, they led volatile and precarious lives: their wives were servants, models, flower-sellers and, although their paintings today sell for millions, they were barely able to support their families. This intimate, colourful, superbly researched account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their love affairs and arguments, heartaches and dreams as well as their canvases and theories. Over the years there were divisions and rows, but in the end this constellation of talent shone through, giving the world a new, exhilarating form of art.
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Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Author: Mike Venezia
ISBN-10: 051642274X
ISBN-13: 9780516422749
Published: 1989-03
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
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Book Description:
Presents a biography of Van Gogh
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Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Author: Mike Venezia
ISBN-10: 0516422766
ISBN-13: 9780516422763
Published: 1990-03-01
Publisher: Childrens Press Chicago
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Book Description:
Presents a biography of Monet
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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard (Phillips Collection)
Author: Elizabeth Easton
ISBN-10: 0300172362
ISBN-13: 9780300172362
Published: 2011-11-29
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Description:
The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure, and many began experimenting with the camera as a means of observing the world and capturing their own images of it. Snapshot investigates seven Post-Impressionist painters and printmakers: Pierre Bonnard, George Hendrik Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Rivière, Félix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard. Although celebrated for their works on canvas and paper, these artists also made many personal and informal snapshots. Depicting interiors, city streets, nudes, and portraits, these photographs were kept private and never exhibited. As a result, most have never been seen by the public.Juxtaposing personal photographs with related paintings and prints by these Post-Impressionist artists, Snapshot offers a new perspective on early photography and on the synthesis of painting, printmaking, and photography at the end of the 19th century.
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Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
Author: Professor Robert L. Herbert et al.
ISBN-10: 0300050836
ISBN-13: 9780300050837
Published: 1991-07-24
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Description:
Sumptuously illustrated with many of the most beautiful Impressionist images, this book presents provocative new interpretations of a wide range of famous masterpieces, showing how they were fully integrated into the social and cultural life of the times.
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Monet: Or the Triumph of Impressionism (Jumbo Series)
Author: Daniel Wildenstein
ISBN-10: 3822870609
ISBN-13: 9783822870600
Published: 1999-03-01
Publisher: Taschen
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Book Description:
A biography of Monet. Numerous reproductions and archive photos appear alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.
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Degas (Artists in Focus)
Author: Jean Sutherland Boggs
ISBN-10: 0810963248
ISBN-13: 9780810963245
Published: 1996-09-01
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Book Description:
Painter and draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor, creator of some of the finest pastels of his or any other time, the Impressionist Edgar Degas combined genius with technical bravura. This selection of his works from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago is accompanied by a survey, by a Degas specialist, of his career and his lifelong exploration of motifs and ideas. The book is one of a series intended for the general reader, but also considered suitable for students and scholars.
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Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics)
Author: Jean Renoir
ISBN-10: 0940322773
ISBN-13: 9780940322776
Published: 2001-09-09
Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Book Description:
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.
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