Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (Historical Connections) - Softcover

Nord, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041507715X ISBN 13: 9780415077156

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. Was the artistic movement really radical and innovative? Is the term "Impressionism" itself an adequate characterization of the movement of painters and critics that took the mid-nineteenth century Paris art world by storm?
By providing an historical background and context, the book places the Impressionists' roots in wider social and economic transformations and explains its militancy, both aesthetic and political.
Impressionists and Politics is a concise history of the movement, from its youthful inception in the 1860s, through to its final years of recognition and then crisis.

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Review:

"As lively as it is judicious, the book offers a compact introduction to an important moment in European cultural history." -Daniel J. Sherman, Rice University

Synopsis:

Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. How revolutionary were the Impressionists? Is the term Impressionism itself a good word for the movement that took the mid-nineteenth century art world by storm? By providing an historical background and context, this book places impressionisms roots in wider social and economic transformations and explains its militancy, both aesthetic and political.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 041507715X
• ISBN 13: 9780415077156
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152