Book Review – Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Richard Scully reviews Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, (Melbourne: Text, 2024). The understanding of French Impressionism has always been bound up with biography and with history. The reaction against an older way of doing things was crucial to the development of the ‘art of light’: a genre […]