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Author Kalba, Laura Anne, 1977- author.

Title Color in the age of impressionism : commerce, technology, and art / Laura Anne Kalba.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
©2017

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  701.85 K124c 2017    ---  Available
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Description xvii, 266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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Series RM, refiguring modernism ; 22
Refiguring modernism ; 22.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
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.
Subject Color in art.
Color -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Color in art. (OCoLC)fst00868563
Color -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00868517
Impressionism (Art) (OCoLC)fst00968249
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628.
ISBN 9780271077000 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
027107700X (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780271077024
0271077026
Standard No. 13268295

 
    
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