Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts

✍ Scribed by Emily C. Burns (editor), Alice M. Rudy Price (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The contributors rethink the role of "French" impressionism in shaping these iterations by placing France within its global and imperialist context and arguing that impressionisms might be framed through the mobility studies’ concept of "constellations of mobility." Artists engaging with impressionism in France, as in other global contexts, relied on, responded to, appropriated, and resisted elements of form and content based on fluid and interconnected political realities and market structures. Written by scholars and curators, the chapters demand reconsideration of impressionism as a historical construct and the meanings assigned to that term.

This project frames future discussion in art history, cultural studies, and global studies on the politics of appropriating impressionism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Mapping Impressionist Constellations
2 Camille Pissarro, Fritz Melbye, and Early Impressionist Innovation in Caracas
3 Impressionism as Erasure: Whistler and the Chincha Islands War
4 Frontier Impressionisms in the United States and Australia
5 Transplanting Impressionism to Canada
6 Christian Krohg’s Images of Family Intimacy in the Age of Impressionism
7 An Arctic Impressionism?: Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Islands
8 Jeune Turc, Jeune Femme: Impressions of a New “Beauté Orientale”
9 “Only the Colors Should Begin to Compose . . .”: Stanisław Wyspiański’s Window View(s) and the Politics of Polish Color
10 Institutionalizing Impressionism: Kuroda Seiki and Plein-Air Painting in Japan
11 From Famed Masters to a New Generation: Durand-Ruel’s Transatlantic Label “Impressionism”
12 “The Rayonnement of Our Ideals”: French, German, and Nordic Painting in Fin-de-Siècle France
13 Impressionism Projected: Anna Ancher, Hygge, and Danish Modernism
14 “Echoes of Impressionism”: Joaquín Clausell and the Politics of Mexican Art
15 Italian Futurism, Socialism, Urban Change, and Impressionism
Selected Bibliography
Index