Impressionism

Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

Robert L. Herbert

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Yale University Press
24 July 1991

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Cultural studies

""Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field.

Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hierarchy of theater boxes to the role of beer-hall waitresses.

His mind and eye are as supple as his lucid prose, and his command of sociological data is staggering.

In this classic of art history, both art and history are triumphantly reborn.""-Robert Rosenblum, New York University This remarkable book will transform the way we look at Impressionist art.

The culmination of twenty years of research by a preeminent scholar in the field, it fundamentally revises the conventional view of the Impressionist movement and shows for the first time how it was fully integrated into the social and cultural life of the times.

Robert L. Herbert explores the themes of leisure and entertainment that dominated the great years of Impressionist painting between 1865 and 1885.

Cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and vacations by the sea were the central subjects of the majority of these paintings, and Herbert relates these pursuits to the transformation of Paris under the Second Empire. Sumptuously illustrated with many of the most beautiful Impressionist images, both familiar and unfamiliar, this book presents provocative new interpretations of a wide range of famous masterpieces.

Artists are seen to be active participants in, as well as objective witnesses to, contemporary life, and there are many profound insights into the social and cultural upheaval of the times. ""A social history of Impressionist art that is truly about the art, informed by a penetrating analysis of the ways in which its pictorial structure and qualities communicate its social content.

Herbert brings that society to life, but above all he makes some of the most familiar and frequently discussed works in the history of art come wonderfully and vividly to life again.""-Theodore Reff, Columbia University Robert L. Herbert is Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on nineteenth-century French art.

By: Robert L. Herbert
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 254mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.542kg
ISBN: 9780300050837
ISBN 10: 0300050836
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 24 July 1991
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

This is a remarkable book: it sets out to examine the conventional view of the Impressionist movement and to show, for the first time, how it was fully integrated into the social and cultural life of its times; it ends by transforming the way we look at Impressionist art. Robert Herbert explores the themes of leisure and entertain ment which dominated the great Impressionist paintings and illustrates this survey with many beautiful images. A vivid, stimulating and fresh view of a very popular and important period in art history. (Kirkus UK)