Product Description: Van Gogh: The Man and the Earth is the catalogue of the exhibition organized in collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. It includes the self-portrait of Vincent, and many works from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Museo Soumaya-Fundación Carlos Slim in Mexico City, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and private collections normally unavailable to the public...read more

Product Description: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. Although he received his artistic training in Paris, a seven-month stay in London, beginning in December of 1870, had a lasting impact on his artistic development...read more

Product Description: 79 pages. Recommended for ages 9 years and up.

Product Description: Paris was the centre of the art world in the nineteenth century and a magnet for American art students and artists, particularly after the 1860s. They flocked to the studios of artists like Gerome and Bouguereau, longed to show their work at the annual Paris Salon, and watched developments such as the unfolding of Impressionism with fascination (and sometimes with horror)...read more

Product Description: Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) settled in Paris in 1874. She was the only American artist invited to exhibit in the now celebrated Impressionist exhibitions of 1878–81 and 1886. “I accepted with joy,” she recalled, “I took leave of conventional art...read more

Product Description: This stunning Pocket Guide discusses the origins, techniques, and development of the Impressionist movement, illustrating the text with works by Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Seurat, Manet, Czanne, Morisot and Sisley. Kathleen Adler explains why Impressionist artists made a radical departure from the great biblical and mythological narratives that flourished in European art for centuries before them, what technical developments in canvases and oil paints facilitated their painting, and how critics responded to their work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A biography of a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, Berthe Morisot (1841-95), who as a woman painter broke free of the restrictions of era and gender. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The twelve essays in this book employ a wide range of visual material from varying periods in history to explore different attitudes to and representations of the human body. Each essay serves to analyse how visual representations of the body work metaphorically and systematically to define and reinforce beliefs and social practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An illustrated book which reveals the work of "unknown" French Impressionists who as much as the "known" painters (Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley) contributed to the style and imagery of French Impressionism. The collection of painters were all very different in character: Caillebotte, an enigmatic figure who was a wealthy patron of his contemporaries as well as a painter in his own right; Guillaumin and Vignon, friends of Pissarro who shared his vision of the misty and fertile landscape; Forain and de Nittis, who too painted the Paris demi-monde; Lepic, the gentleman jockey and greyhound fancier and Zandomeneghi, the Italian army deserter...read more

Traces the life and career of the French impressionist, examines his major paintings, and discusses changing critical opinions regarding his work