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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Refiguring modernism ;
22. |
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Table of Contents:
- Michel-Eugène Chevreul, color, and the dangers of excessive variety
- From blue roses to yellow violets : flowers and the cultivation of color
- Impressionism's chemical aesthetic : the materials and meanings of color
- Fireworks : color, fantasy, and the visual culture of modern enchantment
- Chromolithography : posters, trade cards, and the politics of ephemera collecting in fin-de-siècle France
- Epilogue : autochromes and neo-impressionism : the end of the age of impressionism.