From Monet to Van Gogh a history of impressionism
Title:
From Monet to Van Gogh a history of impressionism
Author:
Brettell, Richard R.
Personal Author:
Edition:
[Library edition].
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2002]
©2002
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Summary:
Introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day.
General Note:
"Art & music"--Containers.
"Fine arts & music"--Guidebooks.
Guidebooks numbered 7187-01 (part 1) and 7187-02 (part 2).
Language:
English
Contents:
Pt. I. Disc 1. The realist and the idealist -- Napoleon III's Paris -- Baudelaire and the definition of modernism -- The shock of the new -- The painters of modern life -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Disc 2. Impressions in the countryside -- Paris under siege -- The first exhibition -- Monet and Renoir in Argenteuil -- Cézanne and Pissarro in Pontoise -- Berthe Morisot -- Pt. II. Disc 3. The third exhibition -- Edgar Degas -- Gustave Caillebotte -- Mary Cassatt -- Manet's later works -- Departures -- Disc 4. Paul Gauguin -- The final exhibition -- The studio of the south : Van Gogh and Gauguin -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- The Nabis -- La fin.
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ISBN:
9781565855885
9791565855884
