The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-century France

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In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen explores the paintings, self-portraits,portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints and studio images of nineteenth-century French landscape painters including the Impressionists. Atthe same time she considers the emergence of modern artistic identity inthe context of creative work. Artists and their paintings under the microscopehere include Courbet, Cezanne and Pissarro, as well as their precursorsand followers.

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The rise of painting en plein air was a key change in French artistic practice in the 19th century. This study examines how this new approach informed the avant garde, leading to the Impressionist revolution. * Apollo Magazine *

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Anthea Callen is Professor of Art (Practice-led Research) at the Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, and Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture at the University of Nottingham. She is an internationally renowned specialist on the history of artists materials and techniques whose publications include The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity (2000) and Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti (2008, co-edited with Fae Brauer).