Research Catalog

Title

Gustave Caillebotte : an impressionist and photography / edited by Karin Sagner and Max Hollein in cooperation with Ulrich Pohlmann.

Publication

• [München] : Hirmer Verlag, [2012]
• ©2012

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Details

Additional Authors

• Caillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894
• Sagner, Karin
• Hollein, Max
• Pohlmann, Ulrich
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Description

247 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"The paintings of Gustave Caillebotte depict striking Parisian street scenes, from Boulevard Haussmann and The Bridge of Europe looking out onto the Gare Saint-Lazare to Caillebotte's best-known work, Paris Street, Rainy Day, which hangs in Chicago's Art Institute today. Caillebotte has long been acknowledged as an important painter--and munificent patron--of the French impressionist movement. Yet his paintings, in their near-photographic precision, stand apart from the works of Renoir and Monet in important ways. Gustave Caillebotte: An Impressionist and Photography sets out to explore the development of the artist's distinctive style. Though there is no evidence that Caillebotte practiced photography, he took an early interest in the art form, influenced perhaps by his brother, the photographer Martial Caillebotte. As a result, Gustave Caillebotte's paintings show an emphasis on realism and often take on the composition and perspective of a photograph as well, with figures toward the center in sharp focus, while those in the foreground or background remain indistinct. Karin Sagner and Max Hollein have carefully chosen from among Caillebotte's works a selection of paintings that exemplify this characteristic of the artist's style. They are presented here alongside critical essays and works by photographers who were Caillebotte's contemporaries and shared an affinity for documenting the nineteenth-century French capital, including André Kertész, Wols and László Moholy-Nagy, Édouard Baldus, Charles Marville, and Eugène Atget. While there have been many studies of Caillebotte's work, this is the first book to publish his paintings side-by-side with a selection of early photographs taken between 1850 and 1930. Together, they establish Caillebotte as the pioneer of a radically modern photographic form that added a new dimension to French impressionism and exerted an important influence on later photography."--Books.google.

Alternative Title

Impressionist and photography : Gustave Caillebotte

Subject

• Caillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894 > Exhibitions

Note

• Published for the exhibition held at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 18 Oct. 2012 - 20 Jan. 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword and acknowledgments to the lenders / Max Hollein -- Gustave Caillebotte -- an impressionist and photography / Karin Sagner -- Panoramas, perspectives -- a new perception of space. Panorama photography -- Paris in all its details ; Stereoscopy -- the breakthrough into 3-D ; The fascination of space. -- New physiognomies -- the city's street furniture. The patient photographer of Parisian street furniture ; From above to below ; The view from above. -- Poetry of technique -- Aesthetics of work. The appeal of technical structures ; The beauty of the unspectacular. -- Reading Gustave Caillebotte's Pont de I'Europe (1876) / Claude Ghez -- Active optics -- Flâneurs, Dandies, and other dramatis personae. Depicting the momentary through movement ; THe freezing of movement ; Passing the time with a camera. -- 'Everything as though under a magic spell' -- The depiction of street life in nineteenth-century photographs / Ulrich Pohlmann. -- Citizens seen in close view. Positions far from Formal posing. -- Staging of objects. Putting things on display -- Commodities and private idealisation. -- Landscape and abstraction. The exploration of painting ; Austere Arrangements. -- Unconventional views through movement. Voyeurs and pedestrians, or: Walking in the city and in the country ; Photography -- The only reliable depiction of reality ; In praise if idleness ; Creating an awareness of things by a new way of seeing ; 'The magical en passant' -- The alienation of the everyday. -- Gustave Caillebotte -- biography / Gilles Chardeau.

Call Number

ReCAP 13-16160

ISBN

• 9783777459219
• 3777459216

LCCN

2012536729

OCLC

810113585

Title

Gustave Caillebotte : an impressionist and photography / edited by Karin Sagner and Max Hollein in cooperation with Ulrich Pohlmann.

Publisher

[München] : Hirmer Verlag, [2012]

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Caillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894, artist.

Sagner, Karin, editor.

Hollein, Max, editor.

Pohlmann, Ulrich, editor.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Cover Title

Impressionist and photography : Gustave Caillebotte

Research Call Number

ReCAP 13-16160