Description: A highly accessible and fresh account that brings together the latest research on this perennially popular art movement.
Brief description:
Belinda Thomson is an independent art historian specializing in nineteenth-- and early twentieth--century French art. Thomson has published widely on Impressionist and Postimpressionist topics. The University of Edinburgh awarded her an honorary professorship in history of art and the French Ministry of Culture named her chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres.
Review Quotes: Full of new insights and informed by recent developments in the social history of art, it is also, to its credit, written in an eloquent and eminently readable style.--Linda Nochlin