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Venerable art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) presented this classic work as a series of lectures at Indiana University in 1961. Focusing chiefly on the painter Monet, Schapiro seeks to demonstrate that Impressionism was not only a movement in the art world but also a way of looking at the world.
| Size | | Length: | 359 pages | | Height: | 11.0 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 64.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Not a word is wasted. And the words are rich; Schapiro's prose possesses an unequaled power to wake up the reader's eye....Yet Schapiro never displays his learning as if he's waving a flag; he quotes and refers only to strengthen the reader's visual experience. What makes this book so compelling, though, is his depiction of Impressionism as a way of life as well as of art, an embrace of one's sensual experience and of the people and places that arouse it."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Sennett (11/02/1997)
"To read this book is as near as we can now get to hearing one of Meyer Schapiro's extemporaneous lectures....A wonderful text, nobly illustrated."
New York Times Book Review - John Russell (12/07/1997)
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