Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions
by Meyer Schapiro
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Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-8076-1420-4
$50.00 (Can: $75.00)
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Writing with the sensitivity and erudition that made him one of the most illuminating and accessible writers of his generation, Meyer Schapiro offers a fresh and exciting new look at the "Impressionist family". He bypasses the popular preference in art-historical writing for a strictly theoretical point of view and employs a broad range of contextual themes -- art history, economics, politics, philosophy, literature, science, and even environmental history -- to examine the Impressionist painters and their works within their original cultural settings. Exploring minute details and broad, historical trends, reaching back into eighteenth-century history and ahead to Abstract Expressionism, Schapiro provides a unparalleled aacount of Impressionism as a turning point in the history of modern art.
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