Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Title: Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Author: Ross King ISBN: 9780802715166 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Published: 2006 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. C 1598953 Publisher Description: With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet. While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic estab