This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas, would at times resemble a battlefield and, as Ross King reveals, Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by King, Ross. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial. "While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take 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. of plates, illustrations (some colour) 24 cm. New York: Walker & Company, 2006 xiii, 448 pages, pp.
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