Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635421705ISBN-10:1635421705UPC:9781635421705Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Jewish, HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:8.40 x 5.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SC5KDT7TFK
A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage. Drawing on Pissarro's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635421705ISBN-10:1635421705UPC:9781635421705Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Jewish, HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:8.40 x 5.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.05Product ID:SC5KDT7TFK
Anka Muhlstein is the author of biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, and Cavelier de La Salle; studies on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; Balzac's Omelette (Other Press, 2011), Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press, 2015), and The Pen and the Brush (Other Press, 2017). She won the Goncourt Prize for her biography of Astolphe de Custine, and has received two prizes from the Académie française. She and her husband, Louis Begley, are the authors of Venice for Lovers. They live in New York City.
Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris and Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly and Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.
Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris and Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly and Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.
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