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Impressionism

Paris in Ruins: Love, war, and the birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee

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October 2024, no. 469
Peter McPhee reviews ‘Paris in Ruins: Love, war, and the birth of Impressionism’ by Sebastian Smee

No movement in the history of art is so beloved as that which we label ‘Impressionism’, and no artists’ names are as familiar as those of its stars: Manet and Monet, Pissarro and Morisot, Degas and Renoir. But why did Impressionism blossom at a particular moment in Paris and in that form? Sebastian Smee’s brilliant new book offers compelling answers.

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