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The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in NineteenthCentury France,Used
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In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the selfportraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenthcentury French Impressionist painters, exploring the emergence of modern artistic identity and its relation to the idea of creative work. Landscape painting in general, she argues, and the plein air oil sketch in particular were the key drivers of change in artistic practice in the nineteenth centuryleading to the Impressionist revolution.Putting the work of artists from Courbet and Czanne to Pissaro under a microscope, Callen examines modes of selfrepresentation and painting methods, paying particular attention to the painters touch and markmaking. Using innovative methods of analysis, she provides new and intriguing ways of understanding material practice within its historical moment and the cultural meanings it generates. Richly illustrated with 180 color and blackandwhite images, The Work of Art offers fresh insights into the development of avantgarde French painting and the concept of the modern artist.
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