This beautifully produced book surveys the full magnificence of Impressionist art, with 135 paintings reproduced in full colour. These include many of the great masterpieces of Impressionism - the brilliant colours of Rouen Cathedral as captured by Monet,Manet's once-shocking nude in The Picnic, many beautiful women depicted by Renoir in Paris cafes,and Degas' snapshot visions of ballet dancers on and off stage. But the book presents not only the works of the original Impressionists but also paintings by less familiar artists such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Mary Cassatt and Armand Guillaumin. The full scope of Impressionism, however, was not limited to its immediate adherents, and The Impressionists and tbeirArt also traces its later flowering in the work of the Post-Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists,through reproductions of paintings by Seurat,Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Includes many of the great masterpieces of Impressionism；135 paintings reproduced in full colour；Historical introduction to the movement and its artists；Handbook size for quick reference.

Chapter One

 SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC BACKGROUND

Chapter Two

 THE EARLY YEARS

Chapter Three

 THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

Chapter Four

 IMPRESSIONISM IN THE 1870s

Chapter Five

 IMPRESSIONISM COMES OF AGE

Chapter Six

 POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Chapter Seven

 THE LAST YEARS

Chapter Eight

 THE IMPRESSIONIST HERITAGE

 FURTHER READING

 THE PAINTINGS

List of colour plates

 Edouard Manet

 Frederick Bazille

 Henri Fantin-Latour

 Berthe Morisot

 Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

 Mary Cassatt

 Claude Monet

 Pierre Auguste Renoir

 Camille Pissarro

 Alfred Sisley

 Armand Guillaumin

 Paul Cezanne

 Vincent Van Gogh

 Paul Gauguin

 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 Oeorges-Pierre Seurat

 Paul Signac

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