The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy
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During the 1860s and '70s, more than a decade before the development of French Impressionism, Italy produced a group of avant-garde artists whose fervently nationalist paintings anticipated some of Impressionism's theoretical concerns. These artists were called "Macchiaioli" because they based their technique on a quickly rendered macchia, or sketch. In the first extended sociopolitical interpretation in English of this important group,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226063305
ISBN13:9780226063300
Release Date:May 1993
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"
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