Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1923058053 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 9.81 MB
Impressionism remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists: Édouard 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 and war.