POST-IMPRESSIONISM - MOVEMENTS IN MODERN ART

This series introduces the major movements in late nineteenth and twentieth-century art. Each book is illustrated with works from the Tate and other major collections around the world. Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. Belinda Thomson introduces artists such as Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh and their associates and explains how they rewrote the rules of representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century.