Impressionism

by Marc Gerstein

Five eminent American museums join in an unprecedented cooperative venture to create this magnificent volume.

By pooling all their Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Toledo Museum of Art have gathered a stunning panorama that rivals any collection in the world. Four key artists receive particularly strong representation: there are 13 pieces by Degas, 8 by van Gogh, 12 by Monet, and 10 by Pissarro. But there are also numerous examples by other masters of the movement, including Cassatt, Cézanne, Gaugin, Manet, Morisot, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Each work appears in a full-color reproduction, with an essay by Marc S. Gerstein, an Associate Professor of Art History, exploring in full its history, technique, and iconography.

Genres: Art

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was lucky enough to have seen this exhibit when it was in Pittsburgh. The book has glossy prints of many (all?) of the paintings in the exhibit, along with a bit of text accompanying each painting. The book begins with an introduction that dwells mostly on the brilliance of the curators who acquired the paintings. For each painting, there is a bit of a description that sometimes places the painting in the artist's context, and usually presents an analysis of the techniques used. It would have been nice to have recorded the provenance of each painting, but the introduction explains that they made a conscious decision not to do that. I had just finished Pissarro by Irving Stone before reading this book, and I would recommend that for considerable additional background.

[Nate]

i have a concussion so i’m only allowed to read picture books 💆‍♂️