[history] Paris in Ruins Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee

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[history] Paris in Ruins Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee | 10.89 MB

Title: Paris in Ruins
Author: Sebastian Smee​



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A Boston Globe "20 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Fall" A Next Big Idea Club "Must-Read Book for September 2024" The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic's gripping account of the "Terrible Year" in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical rlicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born-in response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.
In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of...

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