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Illuminated Paris : essays on art and lighting in the belle époque / Hollis Clayson.

By: Clayson, Hollis, 1946- [author.].
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2019Description: x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226593869 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Lighting, Architectural and decorative, in art | Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Themes, motives | Paris (France) -- In artGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Introduction : Paris, city of éclairage -- Cherchez la lampe : Charles Marville, Gustave Caillebotte, and the gas lamppost -- Losing the moon : John Singer Sargent in the Jardin du Luxembourg -- Bright lights, brilliant wit : electric light caricatured -- Night lights on paper : illumination in the prints of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas -- Outsider nocturnes : Americans in Paris -- Man at the window : Edvard Munch in Saint-Cloud -- Conclusion : art fueled by lights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Paris, city of éclairage -- Cherchez la lampe : Charles Marville, Gustave Caillebotte, and the gas lamppost -- Losing the moon : John Singer Sargent in the Jardin du Luxembourg -- Bright lights, brilliant wit : electric light caricatured -- Night lights on paper : illumination in the prints of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas -- Outsider nocturnes : Americans in Paris -- Man at the window : Edvard Munch in Saint-Cloud -- Conclusion : art fueled by lights.

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