@article{349100,
      recid = {349100},
      author = {Thomson, Belinda.},
      title = {Impressionism : origins, practice, reception /},
      publisher = {Thames & Hudson,},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      pages = {272 p. :},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {The enormous popularity of Impressionist painting today  belies what the group of painters dubbed Impressionists  stood for. During the 1870s and 1880s, a loose group of  French artists, including Pissarro, Monet and Renoir,  adopted a style of painting and subject matter that  challenged the canonical art promoted by the French Academy  and the Salons. The revolutionary nature of Impressionism  emerged from anarchism and political radicalism, from a  belief in science and individualism, creating a view of art  true to modern life and to immediate visual perception. In  the light of recently discovered documents -- critical  reviews and letters between artists, writers and dealers --  Belinda Thompson illuminates the thinking and personal  lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors and  experiences that allowed Impressionism to develop when it  did. She investigates the family background of the  Impressionists, the importance of the art market and  collecting, and the influence of the critical reception to  their exhibitions. Her highly accessible and thoughtful  account brings together the latest research on this  fascinating and complex development in art.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349100},
}