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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by
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The events of 1870-71 impressed on everyone who experienced them a profound sense of precariousness. Many who lived through the Terrible Year succumbed to a new and suddenly deeper sense of existential fragility, and it is hard not to see Impressionism’s emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and transient domesticity as expressions of this heightened awareness of change and mortality.
— Dec 22, 2025 02:20AM
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Trina
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It’s interesting but so much detail that it’s a real slow burner. Pick up again another time
— Dec 14, 2025 05:26PM
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Trina
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Damn. Had to return to the library but will try again later. It’s a little bit of a slog, so it’s hard to stay motivated despite my love for the subject
— Dec 08, 2025 09:01PM
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