Color, line, light : French drawings, watercolors, and pastels from Delacroix to Signac / editors, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Andrew Robison ; introduction, Richard R. Brettell ; essays, Victor Carlson, Elizabeth Easton, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Published: Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art ; New York : DelMonico Books, Prestel Publishing, [2012]
Copyright Date: ©2012
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: xiii, 166 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Additional Creators: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, 1951-, Robison, Andrew, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), and Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France)

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Contents

The paper century: French drawing in the 1800s / Richard R. Brettell -- The romantic impulse / Victor Carlson -- Rendering reality: the natural landscape and everyday life / Margaret Morgan Grasselli -- Impressionist drawings / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon -- The Nabis and Symbolists / Elizabeth Easton -- Neo-Impressionist drawings / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon.

Summary

Spanning the period from romanticism to neo-impressionism, this book reveals the extraordinary richness, diversity, and inventiveness that fueled a remarkably creative period of French drawing--called "the paper century" in the opening essay. Brilliant drawings, watercolors, and pastels by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat as well as by many of their peers allow for a close inspection of such key nineteenth-century artistic movements as romanticism, realism, impressionism, the art of the Nabis and symbolists, and neo-impressionism.

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ISBN

9780894683763 (alk. paper)
0894683764 (alk. paper)
9783791352282 (alk. paper)
3791352288 (alk. paper)

Note

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art in association with the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, July 27-October 31, 2012; National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 27-May 26, 2013.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157) and index.

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