The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2009 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 208 pp, lenders to the exhibition, director's foreword, acknowledgments, The Aesthetics of the Instant: Painting and Photography in Normandy by Carole McNamara; SECTION I. THE ROMANTIC VIEW: Representing Normandy: Painting, Printmaking, and Photography by Stephen Bann; SECTION II. THE NEW TOURISM: The Crossing of Art and Tourism in Normandy by Dean MacCannell; SECTION III. THE INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Photograhing the Normandy Coast: A Technical and Artistic Challenge by Sylvie Aubenas; SECTION IV. SITE AS SUBJECT AND MOTIF: Aspects of Modern Life in Normandy During the Second Empire: Pictorial and Photographic Representations by Dominique de Font-Reaulx; Capturing the Moment; checklist of works in the exhibition, bibliography, index, photo credits. First Edition, 2009: Published by the University of Michigan Muesum of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, VT. "The Framing dates are 1850, when artists began photographing in Normandy and the emerging impact of photography and its aims were debated vigorously in artistic circles, and 1874, the year in which Claude Monet's painting 'Impressions" Sunrise' was exhibited, marking the major new direction in French Painting, and the debut of Impressionism -- a name initially given in critical derision. This volume explores the dialogue between the two media and the backdrop against which both evolved. It presents more than 100 paintings, photographs, and drawings by some of the most treasured artists in the Western Canon -- Courbet, Jongkind, Manet, Monet, Whistler, and Degas among them, together with the work of such pioneering photographers as Gustave Le Gray and Henry Le Secq." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Tan cloth with pictorial end papers..