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Robert L. Herbert (1929–2020)

Author of Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

23+ Works 734 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College.

Includes the names: RL Herbert, ed. Robert L. Herbert, Professor Robert L. Herbert et al.

Also includes: Robert Herbert (1)

Works by Robert L. Herbert

Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1988) 204 copies

Modern artists on art; ten unabridged essays (1964) — Editor — 179 copies

Georges Seurat, 1859-1891 (1991) 104 copies, 1 review

Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte (2004) 85 copies

Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886 (1994) 24 copies

Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts (2000) 23 copies

David, Voltaire, Brutus and the French Revolution: An Essay in Art and Politics (1973) 21 copies

Jean François-Millet: [exhibition], Hayward Gallery, 22 January-7 March 1976 (1976) 17 copies

Seurat: Drawings and Paintings (2001) 17 copies

Barbizon Revisited: Essay and Catalogue (1962) 15 copies

Neo-Impressionism (1968) 12 copies

Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science (2011) 6 copies

Peasants and "primitivism" : French prints from Millet to Gauguin (1995) 6 copies

The Societe Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonne (1984) 5 copies

Seurat's drawings (1962) 4 copies

From Millet to Leger: Essays in Social Art History (2002) 3 copies

Seurat: Paintings and Drawings [exhibition: Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 16 - Mar. 7, 1958; MOMA, Mar. 24 - May 11,… (1958) 3 copies

The Art Criticism of John Ruskin 1 copy

Collective Pursuits : Mount Holyoke Investigates Modernism 1 copy

Neo-Impressionists and Nabis in the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul (1965) 1 copy

Neo-Impressionist and Nabis in the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul (1965) 1 copy

Impressionismus: Paris - Gesellschaft und Kunst (1989) 1 copy

Léger's Le grand déjeuner 1 copy

Associated Works

Anne Walker’s Painted Books (2003) — Introduction — 2 copies

Fungi selecti picti, 1821 (2011) — Introduction — 2 copies

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19th century (20) 800-899 (4) art (122) art history (48) art theory (9) artists (9) Beckmann (4) biography (7) Boccioni (5) color (6) essays (19) exhibition (5) exhibition catalogue (12) France (23) French (5) French art (23) French art 19th-c (11) French Revolution (4) Georges Seurat (4) Henry Moore (4) history (7) Impressionism (35) Kandinsky (6) Klee (4) Le Corbusier (6) Malevich (5) Metzinger (4) Millet (8) modern art (14) modernism (9) Monet (4) Neo-Impressionism (5) non-fiction (15) painters (6) painting (40) Paris (11) Piet Mondrian (6) sculpture (5) Seurat (16) to-read (10)

Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1929-04-21
Date of death: 2020-12-17
Gender: male
Place of death: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Cause of death: stroke
Occupations: art historian
university professor emeritus
Organizations: Yale University
Awards and honors: Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art (College Art Association)

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Reviews

SEURAT 1991, (grande), Seurat by Herbert Robert L. Cachin Francoise, Distel Anne

Mostra a Parigi - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais

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Awards

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Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (Что читать об импрессионизме)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

The Societe Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonne (Winner – 1986)

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Associated Authors

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michel Laclotte

Gerhard Krügel

Daniel Catton Rich

Jean François Millet

Daria D'Arienzo

Orra White Hitchcock

Umberto Boccioni Contributor

Jean Metzinger Contributor

Amédée Ozenfant Contributor

Wassily Kandinsky Contributor

Piet Mondrian Contributor

Kasimir Malevich Contributor

Paul Klee Contributor

Albert Gleizes Contributor

Naum Gabo Contributor

Max Beckmann Contributor

Henry Moore Contributor

Le Corbusier Contributor

Jacques Sallois Foreword

Philippe de Montebello Foreword

Statistics

Works: 23
Also by: 2
Members: 734
Popularity: #34,612
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 30
Languages: 2

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