Color in the age of impressionism : commerce, technology, and art /

"Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of mod...

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Main Author: Kalba, Laura Anne, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Series:Refiguring modernism ; 22.
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Summary:"Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xvii, 266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
ISBN:9780271077000
027107700X
9780271077024
0271077026