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After Impressionism : inventing modern art / MaryAnne Stevens ; with contributions by Maria Alambritis [and seven others].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : National Gallery Global ; Yale University Press, 2023Description: 272 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781857096958
  • 1857096959
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After Impressionism: inventing modern art / MaryAnne Stevens
A volcanic crater: the entanglement of avant-garde art and literature, 1886-1914 / Christopher Riopelle
'Je ne suis homme, ni femme, je suis moi': women artists of the avant-garde, 1900-14 / Maria Alambritis
Appropriating the 'Primitive': Modernism's debut to non-Western art / Julien Domercq
On the periphery? British artists and the European avant-garde, 1886-1914 / Charlotte de Mille
Paris / MaryAnne Stevens
Brussels / MaryAnne Stevens
Barcelona / Daniel Sobrino Ralston
Berlin / Camilla Smith
Vienna / Sabine Wieber
New terrains / John Milner
Summary: Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction. The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, 25 March - 13 August 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

After Impressionism: inventing modern art / MaryAnne Stevens

A volcanic crater: the entanglement of avant-garde art and literature, 1886-1914 / Christopher Riopelle

'Je ne suis homme, ni femme, je suis moi': women artists of the avant-garde, 1900-14 / Maria Alambritis

Appropriating the 'Primitive': Modernism's debut to non-Western art / Julien Domercq

On the periphery? British artists and the European avant-garde, 1886-1914 / Charlotte de Mille

Paris / MaryAnne Stevens

Brussels / MaryAnne Stevens

Barcelona / Daniel Sobrino Ralston

Berlin / Camilla Smith

Vienna / Sabine Wieber

New terrains / John Milner

Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction. The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century.