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Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
BOOKMonet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
André Dombrowski
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32167
Monet’s Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840–1926)—founder of French Impressionism and one of the world’s best-known painters—and the modern experience of time. André Dombrowski illuminates Monet’s celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it.

Monet’s version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism’s major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet’s Minutes traces the evolution of Monet’s art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself.

In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet’s works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key paintings by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality.

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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Print publication date November 2023 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300270662
EISBN 9780300279771
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Illustrations 134
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List of illustrations

  • Caricature of two Impressionist painters
  • Bennecourt
  • Regattas in Argenteuil
  • Ultramarine blue brushstrokes painted over wide stroke of Naples yellow at intervals
  • Claude Monet in his second studio at Giverny
  • Caricature of Parisian clockmakers checking the correct time at the Observatory’s time regulator
  • Five-Piece Clock Garniture
  • Caricature of a Charles-François Daubigny landscape
  • Nude Study of a Man
  • Rococo Clock
  • The Red Kerchief
  • Luncheon on the Grass (left panel)
  • Luncheon on the Grass, central fragment
  • The Luncheon
  • Women in the Garden
  • Lise—The Woman with the Umbrella
  • Illustration of a sphygmograph
  • Illustrations of a myograph and muscle contractions transcribed by a myograph
  • Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe)
  • Luncheon on the Grass (Study)
  • The Luncheon on the Grass
  • Table comparing various speeds
  • Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe")
  • Figure of a Woman (Camille)
  • Reaction time diagram
  • Photographic reproductions of an arm and hand’s nervous system
  • Luncheon on the Grass (left panel), detail
  • Luncheon on the Grass, central fragment, detail
  • Luncheon on the Grass, central fragment, detail
  • Claude Monet showing the Déjeuner sur l’herbe fragment to the Duc de Trévise
  • The Beach at Trouville
  • The Beach at Trouville, detail
  • Various instruments for the time measurements of mental acts
  • Interior of a laboratory room
  • Tabulation of Adolf Höring’s mental time sensitivity experiments
  • Tabulation of Karl Vierordt’s mental time measurement results
  • Chronograph for the measurement of very small time intervals
  • Luncheon on the Grass (Study), detail
  • Luncheon on the Grass (left panel), detail
  • Luncheon on the Grass, central fragment, detail
  • Women in a Garden, detail
  • The Luncheon, detail
  • La Grenouillère
  • The Bridge at Argenteuil
  • Rue Saint-Denis, fête de 30 juin 1878
  • The Ice Floes (Les Glaçons)
  • The Coalmen
  • Caricature of Claude Monet’s Boats Leaving the Port of Le Havre
  • The Coalmen, detail
  • Le Pont Neuf
  • The Seine at Asnières
  • The Forge at Marly-le-Roi
  • Le quai de la Villette à Paris
  • Caricature of Édouard Manet’s Repose (Portrait of Berthe Morisot)
  • Dockers discharging black coal at the Forges of Ivry-sur-Seine
  • Coal carriers at the Quai de la Loire in La Villette
  • Quai au charbon, Honfleur
  • Seine at Grenelle (La Seine à Grenelle)
  • Unloading Barges at Billancourt
  • Barges at Billancourt
  • Madame Monet Embroidering (Camille au métier)
  • The Hunt
  • Table of the labor times in various industries
  • Poplars, End of Autumn
  • A Coal Delivery Woman
  • Gare Saint-Lazare: Exterior View (La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure)
  • Illustrations of a synchronization apparatus
  • Illustration of Collin’s synchronized clock system
  • Esther Pissarro, Alice Isaacson, Lucien and Georges Pissarro pretending to be a train
  • Caricature of Urbain Basset’s sculpture Le Torrent, projet de fontaine (Souvenir du Dauphiné)
  • The Bridge of the Place de l’Europe Seen from the Gare Saint-Lazare
  • The Railway
  • Gare Saint-Lazare
  • The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train
  • Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
  • The Gare d’Argenteuil
  • Gare Saint-Lazare
  • The Batignolles Railway Cutting
  • Ville de Paris, Unification de l’Heure, Centre horaire
  • Illustrations of the Parisian time unification and its domestic distribution through pneumatic clocks
  • Caricature: Le Progrès
  • The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train, detail
  • The Gare Saint-Lazare, Suburban Lines
  • Caricature of pneumatic clocks
  • The Sacred Grove (Le bois sacré)
  • Gare Saint-Lazare: Exterior (The Signal) (La Gare Saint-Lazare, à l’extérieur [Le Signal])
  • Caricature about avoiding railroad accidents
  • Caricature of Paris’s Chemin de fer de petite ceinture
  • Exterior of the Gare Saint-Lazare: View of the Batignolles Tunnels in Sunshine
  • The Moret Railroad Station in Winter
  • Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil
  • Claude Monet in his third studio in Giverny
  • Installation view of Monet’s Stacks of Wheat series
  • Two versions of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral series
  • Rouen Cathedral, West Façade
  • Haut de Portail, Côté de la Place, Cathédrale de Rouen
  • Houses of Parliament, Sunset
  • The Thames below Westminster
  • The Museum at Le Havre
  • The Church at Bennecourt
  • Bennecourt
  • Three versions of Monet’s Mornings on the Seine series
  • Morning on the Seine near Giverny
  • Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
  • A Sunday on the Grande Jatte—1884
  • Time Zone Chart
  • Cover of Uniform Non-Local Time: Terrestrial Time
  • Sir Sandford Fleming’s pocket watch indicating cosmic time
  • The Globe (The Sphere)
  • The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists
  • Morning on the Seine
  • Morning on the Seine, near Giverny
  • Port-Domois, Belle-Isle
  • The Pyramids at Port-Coton, Belle-Île-en-Mer
  • Belle-Île (Pyramides de Port-Coton, Mer sauvage)
  • The rocks at Port-Coton, Belle-Île-en-Mer
  • Caricature of plein air painters
  • Rocks at Port-Coton, the Lion Rock, Belle-Île
  • Rocks at Belle-Île, Port-Domois
  • L. A. Blanqui, 1805–1881
  • Portrait of Poly (François Guillaume)
  • Manne-Porte, Étretat
  • Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île
  • Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, detail
  • Boulevard des Capucines
  • Paris instantané: La Place de la Concorde
  • Claude Monet in front of his house in Giverny
  • Sacha Guitry and Claude Monet in Giverny
  • Claude Monet walking in his Giverny garden
  • Claude Monet painting at his water lily pond in Giverny
  • Water Lilies
  • Claude Monet looking at the motif of the water lily pond in Giverny
  • Claude Monet looking at the camera
  • Illustration of Georges Clemenceau (Jean Périer) and Claude Monet (Sacha Guitry)
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Contents
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Contents
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
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Introduction
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Even an instant demands to be measured. Anything but stable and discrete, an instant is never as long as a second, certainly not a minute; it is shorter than a mere moment and synonymous with, but hardly equal to, the now...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.1-19
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FrancePlein air paintingArt criticism--France--History--19th centuryTime--Sociological aspects--19th centuryTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryIndustrialization--France--History--19th century

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1. Reaction Time: Painting at the Velocity of Vision
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
The eyes of a young woman in an arresting red shawl stare at the viewer through the glass panes of a door. She is outside looking in, and for a moment her glance catches our eye, though she will shortly move on. Once she does, we...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.22-49
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryTime--Sociological aspects--19th centuryLeisure in art--France--History--19th centuryArt and science--France--History--19th centuryManet, Édouard, 1832-1883Painting--Technique--France--History--19th century

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2. Now Time: Impressionism’s Specious Present
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
In 1880, Théodore Duret wrote one of the most emblematic characterizations of Monet ever committed to paper. Defending the artist’s singular vision of Impressionism, the critic explained: “As Corot and Courbet have...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.51-79
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceLeisure in artTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryTime--Sociological aspects--19th centuryDuret, Théodore, 1838-1927Painting, French--19th centuryArt and science--France--History--19th centuryVisual perception--France--History--19th centuryPsychology in art--19th centuryManet, Édouard, 1832-1883

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3. Labor Time: The Instant and the Workday
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
While the first Impressionist exhibition opened in mid-April 1874 amid new accounts of pictorial temporality bursting into view, public conversation was focused on another chronometric: labor time. The chronological overlap between the legislative regulation of the French...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.81-111
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryLabor laws and legislation--France--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryLabor in art--France--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryIndustrialization--France--History--19th centurySisley, Alfred, 1839-1899

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4. Standard Time: Monet at Gare Saint-Lazare
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
For Claude Monet, a life governed by a strict schedule and the absolute surrender to a truly anarchic succession of pictorial instants were two sides of the same coin.This chapter is a revised version of André Dombrowski, “Impressionism and the...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.113-147
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryRailroads in art--France--19th centuryGare Saint-Lazare (Paris, France)Zola, Émile, 1840-1902Painting, French--19th centuryClocks and watches--France--19th centuryArt and technology--France--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th century

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5. Universal Time: Monet Painting in Series
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Describing his visit to the aging Claude Monet in Giverny in the mid-1920s, the critic Marcel Tendron (writing as Marc Elder) opens his account with the following passage, purportedly...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.149-185
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceArt criticism--France--History--19th centuryTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryTime--Sociological aspects--19th centuryVisual perception--France--History--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centurySerial art--France--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryGiverny (France)Clocks and watches--France--19th centuryArt and technology--France--19th centuryRenoir, Auguste, 1841-1919Durand-Ruel, Paul, 1831-1922Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891

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6. The Eternal Return: Monet on Belle-Île
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
When Claude Monet put quotations marks around the word “instantaneity” in his 1890 letter to the critic Gustave Geffroy, he followed (probably unaware of the coincidence) Friedrich...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.187-205
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceBelle-Île-en-Mer (France)Art and philosophy--France--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryTime--Systems and standards--19th centuryTime--Sociological aspects--19th centuryArt criticism--France--History--19th century

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Coda. Shutter Speed: Monet, Photography, Film
André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Between 1914 and 1915, when the medium of film was not quite twenty years old, the actor, playwright, and director Sacha Guitry turned his camera toward the most famous living French artists of his day, filming them...
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André Dombrowski
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by André Dombrowski
Related print edition pages: pp.207-223
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Chapter subject tags:Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)--FranceMotion pictures--France--History--20th centuryPhotography--History--19th centuryGuitry, Sacha, 1885-1957Time--Sociological aspects--19th centuryArt and technology--France--19th centuryGiverny (France)

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André Dombrowski
Description: Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
The histories of Impressionism tend to take the instant as a given. This book rectifies this tendency by making time itself the key ingredient of Monet’s art, as rooted in period conceptions of instantaneity underexplored by art history. Despite its emphasis on all things quick, this text has been some time in the making: I started work on it in...
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Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time
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