Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius Of Manet And Morisot, Degas And Cassatt - Hardcover

Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151010765 ISBN 13: 9780151010769

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the "Impressionists." Derided by critics, sneered at by contemporaries, their work sold for pittances. They were either marginalized or dismissed altogether by the French art establishment. And, to some degree, their iconic works have eclipsed them.

Portraying them as individuals and as fellow conspirators in a new way of seeing and representing the world, Jeffrey Meyers brings to life this most popular and influential group of painters in the entire history of art. The result is an accessible and wonderfully illuminating book that offers readers a fresh way of looking at these artists and the priceless, timeless masterpieces they created.

About this title

Product Description:

Impressionist Quartet describes, in their social and historical context, the complex connections of two remarkable couples: Edouard Manet and his intimate friend, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas and his close companion, the American expatriate Mary Cassatt.

About the Author:

JEFFREY MEYERS is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the author of biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, and Somerset Maugham. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0151010765
• ISBN 13: 9780151010769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352