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Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt
by Meyers, Jeffrey
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151010765
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010769
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About This Item
Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. xiv, 352 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the 'Impressionists.' Derided by critics, sneered at by contemporaries, their work sold for pittances. They were either marginalized or dismissed altogether by the French art establishment. And, to some degree, their iconic works have eclipsed them. Portraying them as individuals and as fellow conspirators in a new way of seeing and representing the world, Jeffrey Meyers brings to life this most popular and influential group of painters in the entire history of art. The result is an accessible and wonderfully illuminating book that offers readers a fresh way of looking at these artists and the priceless, timeless masterpieces they created. / JEFFREY MEYERS is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the author of biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, and Somerset Maugham. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Edouard Manet; Indefinable finesse, 1832-1858; Family secrets, 1859-1864; Habitual offender, 1859-1864; Electric body, 1865-1870; Dining on rats, 1870-1879; Absolute torture, 1880-1883; Berthe Morisot; Friendly Medusa, 1841-1867; Morisot and Manet, 1868-1874; Making concessions, 1874-1895; Edgar Degas; Great draftsman, 1834-1865; Tender cruelty, 1866-1870; Touch of ugliness, 1870-1874; Horses, dancers, bathers, whores; Bankrupt, 1874-1879; Degas and Manet, 1861-1883; Wounded heart, 1880-1888; Solitary Prospero, 1889-1917; Mary Cassatt; American aristocrat, 1844-1879; Cassatt and Degas, 1877-1917; Peppery Lady, 1880-1926. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the "Impressionists." Derided by critics, sneered at by contemporaries, their work sold for pittances. They were either marginalized or dismissed altogether by the French art establishment. And, to some degree, their iconic works have eclipsed them. Portraying them as individuals and as fellow conspirators in a new way of seeing and representing the world, Jeffrey Meyers brings to life this most popular and influential group of painters in the entire history of art. The result is an accessible and wonderfully illuminating book that offers readers a fresh way of looking at these artists and the priceless, timeless masterpieces they created.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt
- Author
- Meyers, Jeffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0151010765
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010769
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, FL
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Women Artists; European / 7. Late 19th Century; Movements / Impressionism;
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