Color in the Age of Impressionism : : Commerce, Technology, and Art / / Laura Anne Kalba.
This study analyzes the impact of color-making 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. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba exa...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Refiguring Modernism ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 108 color/11 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Michel- Eugène Chevreul, Color, and the Dangers of Excessive Variety
- Chapter Two . From Blue Roses to Yellow Violets: Flowers and the Cultivation of Color
- Chapter Three . Impressionism's Chemical Aesthetic: The Materials and Meanings of Color
- Chapter Four . Fireworks: Color, Fantasy, and the Visual Culture of Modern Enchantment
- Chapter Five . 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index