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The Painting of Modern Life
Timothy J. Clark
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who...
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Impressionists by the Sea
John House, David Hopkins
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Academy of Arts
Impressionists by the Sea accompanies a joyous summer exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Through some sixty popular Impressionist works, coauthor John House considers the pictorial representation of the seaside...
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Society of Six: California Colorists
Nancy Boas
University of California Press
University of California Press
When these six artists first banded together in 1917, the San Francisco art establishment found their work raw and undeveloped. According to Nancy Boas, however, these painters represent the first fully evolved reflection of modern art on the West...
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Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics)
Jean Renoir
NYRB Classics
NYRB Classics
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game , tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting...
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