George T. M Shackelford
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"Impressions of Light introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting paths in French art, from the foundations of the Barbizon School through the Post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media - painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography - exploring...
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"Edgar Degas, the nineteenth-century French master, is perhaps best known for his colorful paintings of ballerinas. Marking the 150th anniversary of his birth, this book, based on a show at the National Gallery of Art, brings together the artist's most important paintings and sculpture of the ballet subjects together with pastels and drawings related to them. It covers the artist's mature career from 1870 to 1900."--Dust jacket
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"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the National Gallery of Art's major new exhibition, coorganized with the Kimbell Art Museum, this volume explores the inquisitive, experimental, almost fearless vision that inspired his masterworks"--