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.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Tim Nason · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 ⭐️ Excellent introduction and overview, very readable; great use of pictures to show techniques and how they changed over time. Historical context woven throughout. Details the differences between the most ardent Impressionists Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, and how their efforts were distinct from Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Very brief reference to the predecessor Barbizon landscape artists, and to Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, with a few notes at the end about Impressionism’s impact or lack thereof in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and America.