British Impressionism (PBK); Author: Mcconkey, Kenneth; Paperback

Author: Mcconkey, Kenneth
PBK Edition; Paperback; 70 Colour and 62 B&w Illustrations, Notes, Bibliog
160 pages
Published: September 1998
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714829560

'Beauty lies in the light, as much in the atmosphere which surrounds things as in their actual form and fashion.' These words appear in Stanhope Forbes's Treatment of Modern Life in Art, and they stand as the credo of an extraordinarily accomplished generation of painters -- including Forbes, Lavery, Sargent and Sickert -- the British Impressionists.This beautiful and comprehensive book surveys the exciting developments, debates and personalities amongst French, British and American painters of the period, and the ferment and challenge of their ideas and achievements to which we are grateful heirs. Artists such as Steer, Clausen, O'Conor and Laura Knight depicted an enormous number of urban and rural scenes, refining their ideas into an Impressionist style that is distinctly BPresents a fascinating chapter in the history of British art, when a group of painters, dissatisfied with current academic convention and inspired by French example, fashioned their PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER 1997 BUYERS' GUIDE.This text provides an introduction to British Impressionism, which for a long time was overshadowed by the French Impressionist movement. It examines how a generation of painters reacted against academic Victorian art and developed a style of Impressionism that is distinctly British.