The Private Lives of the Impressionists - Sue Roe

Descriere The Private Lives of the Impressionists - Sue Roe

This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the worlds most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes readers into the artists homes, as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile, and precarious lives, as well as their canvasses and theories. \n \nNew York Times Bestseller\n \nAnyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history student, this is lively, required reading. -- People\n \nThe first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world's most popular group of artists, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. \n \nThough they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers--but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people?\n \nSue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.\n

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HARPER PERENNIAL

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9780060545598

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1

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