Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism Publisher / Buxton Contemporary this book features multi-page spreads

this book features multi-page spreads that include an introductory text accompanied by dazzling full-color reproductions of each artist’s work

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Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism Publisher / Buxton Contemporary this book features multi-page spreadsImpressionism remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists: douard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee shows in Paris in Ruins, a book of great narrative sweep and vivid detail, Impressionism was a complex reaction to an age of violence and war. From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, the Terrible Year, Paris and its people were cut off,