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Impressionist Quartet The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt

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ISBN-10: 0151010765

ISBN-13: 9780151010769

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jeffrey Meyers

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Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the "Impressionists." Derided by critics, sneered at by contemporaries, their work sold for pittances. They were either marginalized or dismissed altogether by the French art establishment. And, to some degree, their iconic works have eclipsed them. Portraying them as individuals and as fellow conspirators in a new way of seeing and representing the world, Jeffrey Meyers brings to life this most popular and influential group of painters in the entire history of art. The result is an accessible and…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/16/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of such literary greats as D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, & F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Edouard Manet
Indefinable Finesse, 1832-1858
Family Secrets, 1859-1864
Habitual Offender, 1859-1864
Electric Body, 1865-1870
Dining on Rats, 1870-1879
Absolute Torture, 1880-1883
Berthe Morisot
Friendly Medusa, 1841-1867
Morisot and Manet, 1868-1874
Making Concessions, 1874-1895
Edgar Degas
Great Draftsman, 1834-1865
Tender Cruelty, 1866-1870
Touch of Ugliness, 1870-1874
Horses, Dancers, Bathers, Whores
Bankrupt, 1874-1879
Degas and Manet, 1861-1883
Wounded Heart, 1880-1888
Solitary Prospero, 1889-1917
Mary Cassatt
American Aristocrat, 1844-1879
Cassatt and Degas, 1877-1917
Peppery Lady, 1880-1926
Notes
Bibliography
Index