The History of Impressionism

Author: John Rewald
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1973
Condition: Softcover, annotations on first page, crease marks on last few pages, wear and tear on cover, interior clean

The author presents the simultaneous developments of the various painters - their relationships, their feuds, and their common struggle - as an integrated whole. There are detailed accounts of the various historic group exhibitions and characterizations of the impressionist painters as individuals and as artists. The book reads like fiction, in which the works of the painters and their own statements illustrate the exciting story of revolt, enthusiasm and confict that characterized the impressionist movement.