Impressionism in the Age of Industry

Toronto, Munich, and New York: Art Gallery of Ontario; Prestel; DelMonico Books, 2019. Pictorial boards, 243 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This generously illustrated book examines the relationship between 19th-century Impressionism and industry in Europe. The late-19th century was a time of new technology, industry, and modernity. People were enthralled with their changing world and artists were not an exception. Fascinated by progress in every form, artists depicted factories, trains, and construction sites. Artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Camille Pissarro began to paint the world around them, from laundresses in the basements of Paris to rural laborers in fields. This book focuses on how Impressionist artists engaged and treated the topic of industry in their art. Chapters discuss how Paris was transformed into a bustling, modern city, the role of women in labor, and the demographic shift from rural to urban centers. Paintings, drawings, and prints, along with archival photographs help to illustrate this rich and complicated moment in art history." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Director's foreword, by Stephan Jost; Geographies of Impressionism in the age of industry: an introduction, by Caroline Shields; That great brouhaha: picturing sound in nineteenth-century France, by Joseph L. Clarke; White collars and working bodies in the age of industry, by Mary Hunter; Industry and labour at the Impressionist exhibitions, by James H. Rubin; Figuring industry in the photographic archive, by Monique L. Johnson; Appendix: collecting representations of Industry in the after of Impressionism, by Caroline Shields.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.