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After impressionism, inventing modern art, MaryAnne Stevens ; with contributions by Maria Alambritis [and seven others]

Label
After impressionism, inventing modern art, MaryAnne Stevens ; with contributions by Maria Alambritis [and seven others]
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
After impressionism
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
3212901346945624
Responsibility statement
MaryAnne Stevens ; with contributions by Maria Alambritis [and seven others]
Sub title
inventing modern art
Summary
Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction. The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century. This fully illustrated catalogue will contain four essays, introductions to each city of ferment and biographies of the artists. Exhibition: The National Gallery, London, UK (25.03. - 13.08.2023)
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