Description:
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2024 - A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 - One of The Boston Globe's "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.
Brief description: Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at the Washington Post and the author of The Art of Rivalry. Formerly the chief art critic at the Boston Globe and national art critic for the Australian, he lives in Boston.
Review Quotes: Detailed, lively and at times richly novelistic. Smee writes with both knowledge and panache, transmitting the sense of urgency and immediacy that animated the painters.--Michael Prodger "Literary Review"