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Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings
Impressionism The Painters and the Paintings Author:Bernard Denvir Impressionism as an artistic movement was rooted in France in the middle of the 19th century. This beautifully illustrated book present the history of development and expansion of the Impressionism between 1874 and 1886. Impressionists were the first western artists to find inspiration outside the boundaries of Europe, and the first to be i... more »nfluenced by the world of popular imagery which had been despised for centuries. Bernard Denvir, in his splendidly lively and entertaining text, shows how Impressionism, in substituting a perceptual rather than a conceptual way of recording reality, was at once the last significant statement of visual pragmatism which would profoundly alter our attitudes both to nature and to life itself.« less