Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape - Hardcover

Rothkopf, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856676306 ISBN 13: 9780856676307

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated publucation illuminates Camille Pissarro's remarkable transformation from a Barbizon-style landscape painter to one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This is the first major examination of the revolutionary landscape paintings Pissarro created between 1864 and 1874. During this pivotal decade in the artist's career, Pissarro produced his most beautiful and innovative canvases and his experimental techniques and vision laid the groundwork for an entire generation of painters. This publication brings together approximately 50 of these exquisite paintings, from key works included in the Salon exhibitions of the 1860s to a powerful selection of landscapes seen in the first Impressionist show of 1874.  Many of these paintings are drawn from major museums around the world and rarely shown private collections.
 
Along with full-color reproductions and in-depth catalogue entries on the paintings are essays on the development of Pissarro's painting style from 1864 to 1874, and on the influence of place in his work--acknowledging his formative years in St. Thomas and Venezuela as well as his fascination with the countryside surrounding Paris. Technical studies of several of the artist's paintings from the 1860s reveal new insights into the artist's creative process.  This volume accompanies an exhibition organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art. It will travel to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee and the Milwaukee Museum of Art in 2007.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Rothkopf is the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art and a specialist in late nineteenth-century French painting.

Review:

"The catalogue is a visual treat, as one luscious although not predictably impressionistic landscape after another fills its pages.  It is also a very profound work of scholarship...The first catalogue to look so closely at Pissarro’s pre-impressionistic years, his experimental techniques during this time, and the profound impact place had on his painting of landscapes, it is recommended for academic, public, and special libraries supporting an art history collecting program."  --Jennifer H Pollack, Library Journal "Well-produced and very reasonably priced...Highly recommended." --J. Weidman, Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0856676306
• ISBN 13: 9780856676307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214