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Watercolor, a history, Marie-Pierre Salé ; translated from the French by Alan Paddle

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-414) and index

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Watercolor

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Marie-Pierre Salé ; translated from the French by Alan Paddle

a history

"An illustrated history of watercolor painting in Europe and the United States"--, Provided by publisher

The birth of watercolor -- From medium to genre -- "And this manner was the first of all": primitive painting -- Tinted drawing in medieval illuminated manuscripts -- Drawing with watercolor in renaissance Italy -- The northern renaissance: Albrecht Durer, the first water colorist -- Northern color wash and drawing in the seventeenth century -- The miniature: body and water color -- The differentiation of genres: miniature and gouache -- Watercolor: a new genre -- Technical innovations: wove paper and ready-to-use colors -- The British golden age -- And the spread of watercolor in Europe and the United States -- The English model -- The watercolor landscape: from topography to modern practice -- Techniques reinvented -- Watercolor societies: exhibit and promote -- Triumph of the illustrators -- Watercolor like oil painting -- The growth of water color practice in Europe -- The American school -- Traditions and modernity -- Watercolor in France -- A pleasant art -- An era of transition -- British influence and watercolor revival in the Romantic era -- Eugene Delacroix and the conquest of free wash -- Other romantic tendencies: Paul Huet, Eugene Isabey, and Alexander-Gabriel Decamps -- Paths of modernity in the 1860s -- The societe d'Aquarellistes Francais: Neo-Romanticism and the traditions of illustration and miniature -- Cezanne, Signac, and early abstract art -- Watercolor and avant-garde -- Paul Cezanne: the quintessence of watercolor -- Paul signac: kinship, assertion of the line, and the liberation of color -- Watercolor and abstract art -- The colors of water color