{"product_id":"paris-in-ruins-love-war-and-the-birth-of-impressionism","title":"Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Editors' Choice ‚Ä¢ A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Nonfiction Book of 2024 ‚Ä¢ A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of 2024 ‚Ä¢ One of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e's ‚Äú20 Books We Can‚Äôt Wait to Read This Fall‚Äù ‚Ä¢ A Next Big Idea Club ‚ÄúMust-Read Book for September 2024‚Äù\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Pulitzer Prize‚Äìwinning art critic‚Äôs gripping account of the ‚ÄúTerrible Year‚Äù in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the ‚ÄúTerrible Year‚Äù by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans‚Äïthen 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. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born‚Äïin response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. √âdouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Fr√©d√©ric Bazille, 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‚Äïreflected in Impressionism‚Äôs emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things‚Äïbecame the movement‚Äôs great contribution to the history of art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncisive and absorbing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParis in Ruins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e 8 page insert, 20 color images\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. 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