Color in the Age of Impressionism
Commerce, Technology, and Art
Seiten
2018
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07702-4 (ISBN)
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Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture.
This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet.
The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art.
Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.
This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet.
The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art.
Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.
Laura Anne Kalba is Associate Professor of Art History at Smith College.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter OneMichel-Eugène Chevreul, Color, and the Dangers of Excessive Variety
Chapter TwoFrom Blue Roses to Yellow Violets: Flowers and the Cultivation of Color
Chapter ThreeImpressionism’s Chemical Aesthetic: The Materials and Meanings of Color
Chapter FourFireworks: Color, Fantasy, and the Visual Culture of Modern Enchantment
Chapter FiveChromolithography: Posters, Trade Cards, and the Politics of Ephemera Collecting in Fin-de-Siècle France
EpilogueAutochromes and Neo-Impressionism: The End of the Age of Impressionism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Refiguring Modernism |
| Zusatzinfo | 108 Halftones, color; 11 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 1134 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-07702-6 / 0271077026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-07702-4 / 9780271077024 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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