Impressionist Paris: A Traveller's Companion

By Julian More

Book Overview

This illustrated text is a practical and historical guide, designed for visitors around Paris. The late-19th century times that were modern for the Impressionists have distinct resonances today. Behind the seemingly bland bourgeois bliss a certain malaise lingered, a disillusion with the Industrial Revolution which had failed to live up to its promise of everlasting bounty. As our own century draws to a close, we are similarly quick to blame our technocratic society for our ills. Like the inhabitants of fin-de-siecle Paris, we share the same kind of escapist urge for distraction, an urge which the impressionists were instinctively in tune.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857938321
• ISBN13: 9781857938326
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Anova Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The best guide book for an Impressionist painter

No guidebook on the market gives a tour like this one. Viewing the places where painters painted with your own eyes is the only way you can really understand their work. Great personal learning tool. Makes the Impressionists come alive.