Inspiring Impressionism : the Impressionists and the art of the past / edited by Ann Dumas ; with Xavier Bray [and others].

Format Book
Publication Info[Denver, Colo.] : Denver Art Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Description279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Subjects
Denver Art Museum--Exhibitions.
Impressionism (Art)--Exhibitions.
Art, European--Exhibitions.
Art, European--Influence.

Other author/creatorDumas, Ann.
Other author/creatorBray, Xavier.
Other author/creatorDenver Art Museum.
Other author/creatorHigh Museum of Art.
Other author/creatorSeattle Art Museum.
Contents Old art into new: the Impressionists and the reinvention of tradition / Ann Dumas -- Impressionism and the golden age of Dutch art / Frances Suzman Jowell -- Sketches of Spain: the Spanish old masters and the French Impressionists / Xavier Bray -- Painted in an hour: Impressionism and eighteenth-century French art / Richard Rand -- Impressions of old masters: the landscape tradition / Michael Clarke -- In search of the past: the case of still life / Lesley Stevenson -- Genre: painting without a subject? / John House -- An elegant alliance: Impressionist portraiture and the art of the past / John Collins -- Chronology: 1849-1910 / Angelica Daneo.
General noteExhibition "organized by the Denver Art Museum in collaboration with the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Seattle Art Museum"--colophon.
General noteExhibitions schedule: High Museum of Art, 16 Oct 2007 - 13 Jan 2008; Denver Art Museum, 23 Feb - 25 May 2008; Seattle Art Museum, 19 June - 21 Sept 2008.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and index.
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