The Private Lives Of The Impressionists by Sue Roe Paperback Book

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Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly twenty years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. This account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their private affairs.

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A vivid, intimate, evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters.Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are familiar - but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris underwent Baron Haussman's spectacular transformation.For over twenty years they lived and worked together as a group, struggling to rebuild their lives after the Franco-Prussian war and supporting one another through shocked public reactions to unfamiliar canvasses depicting laundresses, dancers, spring blossom and boating scenes.This intimate, colourful, superbly researched account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile and precarious lives, as well as the stories behind their paintings.

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Vivid, intimate and evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters including Manet, Monet , Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir and Sisley. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout and reads like a novel.

Author Biography

Sue Roe is a freelance writer and teacher. A former Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and current lecturer at the University of Sussex, she is the author of a novel, Estella, Her Expectation, a collection of poems, The Spitfire Factory, and Writing and Gender- Virginia Woolf's Writing Practice. She is also co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, and her most recent book is the widely praised Gwen John- A Life. She lives in Brighton.

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"A deft account of their varying shades of character and fortune. Roe's quietly successful book tells of ultimate triumph, but shows its human cost" -- Jane Stevenson Daily Telegraph "Roe is good at bounding from one eye-catching anecdote to another" -- Martin Grayford Sunday Telegraph "The great strength of Roe's book is the way that it manages to synthesise the wealth of published biographical and scholarly work on half a dozen artists into a coherent narrative of kith and kinship" -- Kathryn Hughes Guardian "Her book is widely researched but has a neat, light touch" Independent on Sunday

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A vivid, intimate, evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters.

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A deft account of their varying shades of character and fortune. Roe's quietly successful book tells of ultimate triumph, but shows its human cost

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A deft account of their varying shades of character and fortune. Roe's quietly successful book tells of ultimate triumph, but shows its human cost

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A vivid, intimate, evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters.

Details ISBN0099458349 Author Sue Roe Pages 368 Year 2007 ISBN-10 0099458349 ISBN-13 9780099458340 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 759.054 Media Book Short Title PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIO Residence US Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2007-09-06 UK Release Date 2007-09-06 AU Release Date 2007-09-06 NZ Release Date 2007-09-06 Illustrations 38 Translator Robert Chandler Edited by Ana Sofia Ribeiro Birth 1969 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Alternative 9781409020851 Audience General We've got this

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