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31) Monet & Japan
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Publisher
Distributed in the United States of America by University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass
Pub. Date
©2000
Description
The "point" of Impressionist art was to capture the fleeting moment, the transient effect of a certain place, person or time. Impressionist artists worked on site with speed and directness, hoping to distinguish their works with a new freshness, immediacy, and truthfulness. Yet the paintings they exhibited were in fact almost always completed in the studio later. This beautifully illustrated book investigates for the first time works that might truly...