JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

"That painting was the beginning of a collection that eventually grew to over 200 works," Tackett says. The 41 paintings in "American Impressionism" date from 1861 to the late 1930s, a period of ...

SKILLFUL popularizers don't always get a place of honor at literature's table, but they should. They bridge the divide between scholars and general readers, harvesting the work of experts and whipping ...

While every Art History 101 student knows that Impressionism challenged the prevailing aesthetic of its day, Professor House seeks to show that this challenge was also at least obliquely political: ...

Most people think of impressionism as a purely French artistic movement, said Douglas Britt in the Houston Chronicle. In fact, it had a late if little-known flowering in Germany, where artists such as ...

The challenge in mounting an exhibition of Impressionist works is transcending the assumptions and associations forged by the ubiquitous replication of the style in generic form: from posters in ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

"Les Choristes" was stolen from the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2009. — -- A painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas has been located for the first time since it was stolen from a ...

Some 150 years ago, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made a name for himself as a founder of the Impressionist art movement. His paintings (like "Bathers" and "Dance at Bougival") still captivate today. Now, his ...