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Color in the Age of Impressionism : Commerce, Technology, and Art / Laura Anne Kalba.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2017.; (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015).Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages )Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271079806
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N7432 .C656 2017
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Contents:
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: "Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumiere brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumiere brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture"--Provided by publisher.

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.

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