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Unknown Impressionists

出版	Phaidon, 1988
主題	Art / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ISBN	07148245269780714824529
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fIvqAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The outstanding achievement of French Impressionism has traditionally been ascribed to a few acclaimed heroes. The lily-ponds of Monet, the boating-parties of Renoir, and the acute vision of Cezanne have all dominated popular attention. But in reality these artists shared their work and ideals with a constantly shifting group of painters. In the Impressionist group exhibitions the paintings of all the now better-known artists hung side-by-side with those of the 'unknown' Impressionists whose work is presented here in a first published collection. Different issues brought these men and women together. Caillebotte was an enigmatic figure, the wealthy patron of his contemporaries as well as a painter in his own right. He, Morisot, and Rouart took part in the organisation of the independent exhibitions without which Impressionism would never have been known. Guillaumin and Vignon were friends of Pissarro, painters who shared his vision of the misty and fertile landscape of the lie de France. Forain and de Nittis painted the Paris demimonde, and they offer a view of urban life firmly rooted in the nineteenth century. This is a visually sensational book, a source of imagery of the France and its capital that the Impressionists knew, and of the colourful characters who have left an enduring mark on Paris - painters like Lepic, the gentleman jockey and greyhound fancier, Zandomeneghi, the Italian army deserter, and Forain himself, who kept company with chorus girls and acrobats. The Paris of the Third Republic comes to life in Raffaelli's revealing pictures of the proletariat. As Raffaelli announced in 1885, 'from the cafe of neighbourhood tradesmen to the tavern where politicians hold forth! What discoveries are there to be made!'