An accessible and thoughtful account examining the factors and experiences that allowed Impressionism to develop when and how it did. The author draws upon recently discovered documents, critical reviews and letters between artists, writers and dealers.

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at the Post-Impressionists and the influential stylistic changes which they introduced. It also sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts.

Traces the life of the nineteenth century French artist, looks at his most important paintings, drawings, and sculpture, and discusses influences on his work.

Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, dismantling and reassembling the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van ..

A detailed and comprehensive study of Gauguin as an artist and as a writer.

An introduction to one of the iconic images of the 20th century - Gauguin's 'Vision of the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel'.

Explores various paintings in the context of Van Goghs short but brilliant career, allying the works to his correspondence.

This illustrated introduction to the subject of post-Impressionism appraises both the artists, most notably Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, and the period in which they lived. It examines the attitudes and theories of the artists and their public in the late 19th century.