The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by King, Ross

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802715166)

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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by King, Ross

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

$21.00
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by King, Ross

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.

While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, would at times resemble a battlefield; and as Ross King reveals, it would reorder both history and culture, and resonate around the world.

Author: Ross King
ISBN-10: 0802715168
ISBN-13: 9780802715166
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/21/2007 pg. 20
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Ross King is the bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, Leonardo and The Last Supper, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies and others. His work has won the RBC Taylor Prize, and been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the National Award for Arts Writing. He has lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian, the Aspen Institute, and the Frick Collection, and in Florence, Milan, Paris, and Giverny. He lives near Oxford with his wife, Melanie.

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