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Prestel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seurat, and Pisarro. Each piece is given a brief overview establishing its place in the Impressionist pantheon as well as in its artist's oeuvre. An introductory text explains the Impressionistic style, tracing the movement's development, while an...
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English
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France, 1880. Artist Auguste Renoir responds to writer Émile Zola's criticism of Impressionist art by painting a leisurely outdoor scene of friends and acquaintances. Their lives unfold and connect as they gather at a restaurant along the Seine and enjoy "la vie moderne," a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Prussian War. Some descriptions of sex.
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