Paris in Ruins (eBook)

Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

Sebastian Smee (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
384 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00696-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2024 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 One of The Boston Globe's 20 Books We Cant Wait to Read This Fall A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book for September 2024The Pulitzer Prizewinning art critics gripping account of the Terrible Year in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the Terrible Year by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germansthen imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was bornin response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. douard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Frdric Bazille, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transiencereflected in Impressionisms emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all thingsbecame the movements great contribution to the history of art.At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism.Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 8 page insert, 20 color images
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th Century France • 19th century paris • artist biographies • birth of impressionism • history of impressionism • Impressionism • Impressionist art • Impressionist artists • manet biography
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00696-X / 132400696X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00696-1 / 9781324006961