Impressionist Art: A Crash Course

by David Boyle

For a so-called art movement, impressionist painters were a very dissimilar group. Monet and Renoir liked people-watching and hanging out with the jet set at La Brenouillière. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses. One thing these artists all had in common, however, was a love of bright, big, bold dabs of it.



Impressionist A Crash Course provides lots of color as well as hundreds of amusing anecdotes and little-known facts about this popular period. Readers will not only be able to tell the Manets from the Monets, but will quickly become experts on the many mini-movements within this popular style. This fun-loving guide is appealing, compact, lavishly illustrated, and conveniently organized chronologically spread by spread. For anyone who can’t tell the water lilies from the haystacks, Impressionist A Crash Course is an enjoyable trip for all.





• Reader-friendly and informative text brings new dimension to familiar history

• Each 2-page spread is devoted to a particular impressionist movement, topic, or individual artist

• Compact and easy to follow timeline puts vital events of the period into context

Genres: Art

144 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

David Courtney Boyle was a British author and journalist who wrote mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business, and culture. He lived in Steyning in West Sussex.
He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on public demand for choice in public services which reported in 2013. Boyle was a co-founder and policy director of Radix, which he characterized in 2017 as a radical centrist think tank. He was also co-director of the mutual think tank New Weather Institute.

Reviews

[Shahjy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing introduction to Impressionism and the art world as a whole, packed full of information and illustrations and setting the period in historical, political and cultural context. Exactly what I was looking for (and a charity shop steal at £2!) so I thoroughly enjoyed it and I’m sure it will be often returned to.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good little book that helped me understand a lot more about impressionist art.