Impression : painting quickly in France, 1860-1890 / Richard R. Brettell.
Language: English Publication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 2000. Description: 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 28 cmISBN: 0300084471Subject(s): Impressionism (Art) -- France. -- Exhibitions | Painting, French -- 19th century -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: ND 547.5 .I4 B739 2000Catalogue of the exhibition "Impression: painting quickly in France, 1860-1890," National Gallery, London, Nov. 1, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Mar. 2-May 20, 2001; and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 16-Sept. 9, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-) and index.
The Impression in 1874 -- Painting as performance : spontaneity and its appearances in painting, and the intellectual origins of the Impression -- Edouard Manet and performative painting -- Claude Monet and the development of the Impression -- Berthe Morisot and Auguste Renoir : the wetness of paint and the sketch aesthetic -- Alfred Sisley : the Impression, graphism, and automatic writing -- Could Edgar Degas paint an Impression -- Gustave Caillebotte and Camille Pissarro : Impressionists without Impressions? -- Coda : was van Gogh an Impressionist? -- Appendix : Laforgue's essay on Impressionism.