中文简介：

1850年至1880年期间，印象派风景画和早期摄影形式在法国艺术界蓬勃发展。在同样标志着这个时代的大规模社会和政治变革的背景下，画家和摄影师对法国的看法截然不同，有些将法国描绘成现代的工业化国家，有些则描绘成反现代的乡村景象。本书探讨了这一时期的绘画和摄影作品所反映的风景艺术和国家认同之间的共鸣，特别是研究和说明了主要艺术家的作品，如爱德华·巴尔杜斯、古斯塔夫·勒·格雷、比森·弗雷尔、爱德华·马奈、让·弗朗索瓦·米莱、克劳德·莫奈、夏尔·内格雷和卡米尔·毕沙罗。本书着眼于整个法国，在七个地理区域和四篇学术论文中探索了风景艺术与法国民族概念之间的关系，提供了有关法国印象派的产生和影响的新信息。

英文简介：

Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères, Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre, and Camille Pissarro. This ambitious premise focuses on the whole of France, exploring the relationship between landscape art and the notion of French nationhood across the country's varied and spectacular landscapes in seven geographical sections and four scholarly essays, which provide new information regarding the production and impact of French Impressionism.