Impressionism.

by Phoebe Pool

The Impressionists--Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, and Renoir--are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. With imagination and insight, the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists and their contemporaries, using letters, critical reviews and reminiscences of the people who were part of the story. As we see in Bernard Denvir's compelling survey, the Impressionists had new ways of painting, but they also had a new world to a world of stream tricycles, emergent photography, and modern ideas about perception. 195 illus., 17 in color.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art

Paperback

First published December 1, 1967

Reviews

[Simon Jewell · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating account, that hasn't dated, ornamented by wonderful and elegant use of the English language, of the surprisingly short period of about 8 years when the much loved way of painting, Impressionism, was invented, fully explored and ultimately discarded by its inventors as not expressive enough.