Color in the Age of Impressionism
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Color in the Age of Impressionism

Commerce, Technology, and Art

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eBook - PDF

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Commerce, Technology, and Art

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780271077000
eBook ISBN
9780271079806
Topic
Art
Subtopic
European Art

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: MICHEL-EUGÈNE CHEVREUL, COLOR, AND THE DANGERS OF EXCESSIVE VARIETY
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: FROM BLUE ROSES TO YELLOW VIOLETS: Flowers and the Cultivation of Color
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: IMPRESSIONISM’S CHEMICAL AESTHETIC: The Materials and Meanings of Color
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: FIREWORKS: Color, Fantasy, and the Visual Culture of Modern Enchantment
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY: Posters, Trade Cards, and the Politics of Ephemera Collecting in Fin-de-Siècle France
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. EPILOGUE: AUTOCHROMES AND NEO- IMPRESSIONISM: The End of the Age of Impressionism
  19. Notes to Epilogue
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Series Page
  24. COVER Back