Color in the age of impressionism : commerce, technology, and art

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

"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 mod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalba, Laura Anne, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Series:Refiguring modernism ; 22.
Subjects:
Color in art.
Color > Social aspects > France > History > 19th century.
Impressionism (Art) > France.
Table of 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.

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