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Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture

Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture

Matz, Jesse

Hardcover

Series: Literature Now

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231164068
ISBN13: 9780231164061
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to look at and think about the world and our experience of it. Its legacy has been felt in many major contributions to popular and high culture, from cubism and early cinema to the works of Zadie Smith and W. G. Sebald, from advertisements for Pepsi to the observations of Oliver Sacks and Malcolm Gladwell. Yet impressionism's persistence has also been a problem, a matter of inauthenticity, superficiality, and complicity in what is merely impressionistic about culture today.

Jesse Matz considers these two legacies--the positive and the negative--to explain impressionism's true contemporary significance. As Lasting Impressions moves through contemporary literature, painting, and popular culture, Matz explains how the perceptual role, cultural effects, and social implications of impressionism continue to generate meaning and foster new forms of creativity, understanding, and public engagement.

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