Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism

by Sebastian Smee

W.W.Norton

    Smee weaves together the lives and works of several Impressionists - mainly Berthe Morisot and the Manet brothers - with the horrors of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. He shows the human turmoil and the destruction of the city, the civil war inside the city and the effects it all had on their art world. A fascinating story.

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