Paris In Ruins. Love, War And The Birth Of Impressionism

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 370 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Impressionismits dramatic depiction of light, its lovely evocation of the transience of everythingremains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artistsEdouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee shows in Paris in Ruins, a book of great narrative sweep and vivid detail, Impressionism was a complex reaction to an age of violence, civil war, and political intrigue.. From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the Terrible Year, Paris and its people were cut off, starved, and forced to surrender by Germansbefore rebel republicans established a breakaway government or Commune. After street fighting and the burning of central Paris, the republicans were crushed by the French army.. In Paris in Ruins Smee tells this story through the eyes of these key artists, with a special focus on the intimate, enigmatic relationship between Manetthe father of Impressionismand Morisot, the groups only female member in its early years. An indelible portrait of the city, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, and reveals how the chaos of that year had an incalculable effect on the development of modern art.

ISBN: 9781923058057