Ross King, The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism (illustrated)
Walker & Company | ISBN:0802714668 | 2006 | PDF | 9 MB | 475 Pages
Unencumbered by the dogma of conservative institutions such as the École des Beaux-Arts, the Americans happily embraced what the French had been reviling for two decades as scandalous profanations of art. Paintings of modern lifeâ€â€ballet dancers, Parisian street scenes, and the sunlit, willow-draped riverbanks at Pontoise or Argenteuilâ€â€endeared themselves to a new generation of American collectors and museum-goers much more than did moralistic interpretations of Greek myths, Roman history, or indeed Napoleonic battle scenes.
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