Product Description: This volume is an exciting, eclectic collection of essays in honor of Kermit S. Champa, a leading scholar of impressionism and critic of twentieth-century art. The lead essay by David Carrier is followed by others from several generations of scholars and museum curators trained by Professor Champa...read more

Product Description: The art of architectural floodlighting, which first came into existence at the beginning of the 20th century, has seen a world-wide renaissance in more recent years. This is an in-depth and illustrated account of the history of architectural illumination in American and European cities...read more

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Product Description: In Masterpiece Studies Kermit Champa offers new ways to interpret modernism that have previously been closed off by the application of the reigning art-historical methodologies to the study of the modernist achievement. He focuses on four separate phenomena--Manet's last Salon painting, Bar at the Folies-Bergère; L'Oeuvre, Zola's novel about the realist/impressionist movement; Van Gogh's problematic versions of a single painting, La Berceuse; and the immanent series phenomenon of Monet's work of the period...read more

Product Description: Book by Champa, Kermit Swiler

Analyzes the major paintings of the twentieth century Dutch artist, examines his style and technique, and discusses his work's development and influences