Status Updates From Paris in Ruins: The Siege, ...

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.

It’s interesting but so much detail that it’s a real slow burner. Pick up again another time

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