Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century

All the favorites are here, including Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne and many others and is nicely illustrated. Impressionists and Politicsis an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. By providing an historical background and context, this book places the Impressionists' roots in wider social and economic transformations and explains its militancy, both aesthetic and political.Impressionists and Politicsis a concise history, from its youthful inception in the 1860s to its final years of recognition and crisis.