Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh

by James Henry Rubin

This book offers a major reevaluation of one of art history's most popular and important art movements. In Impressionism and the Modern Landscape, James Rubin shifts the focus from familiar scenes of pleasure--the beautiful countryside, people at leisure--to a landscape changing as the result of productivity, technology, and urbanization. He demonstrates not only that the industrial and demographic revolutions of the nineteenth century had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248015
• ISBN13: 9780520248014
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.3"