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Paris in Ruins

Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

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Paris in Ruins

Auteur(s): Sebastian Smee
Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
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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 republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris.

In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Sebastian Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transience-reflected in Impressionism's emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things-became the movement's great contribution to the history of art.

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

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This was an exceptionally interesting book. I think when I started it, that I didn’t fully appreciate its significance, however I finally got that a few chapters in, and went back and relistened from the beginning. I was aware of some moments of thus period from other art history books, but this was the first time I’ve read something that was so focused on a particular group of artists (6 of them) for such a short period (essentially a year), when so much went on. I particularly appreciated the inclusion of Berthe Morisot as one of the six. Too many other books have just left her out of the narrative entirely. Highly recommended.

Very good - with Berthe Morisot included

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