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Muhlstein, Anka.
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Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.
Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
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Muhlstein, Anka.
Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.
Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
MARC Display
Camille
Pissarro
: the
audacity
of
Impressionism
/ Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
by
Muhlstein, Anka.
Other Press, 2023.
Call #:
759.054 P678m
Subjects
Pissarro
,
Camille
, 1830-1903.
Impressionism
(Art) -- France.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781635421705 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Pissarro
: the
audacity
of
Impressionism
Description:
307 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
In English, translated from the French.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307).
Summary:
"From the acclaimed biographer and author of Monsieur Proust's Library, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of
Impressionism
" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter
Camille
Pissarro
(1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage. Drawing on
Pissarro
's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered a system encouraging freedom and autonomy."--From publisher.
Anka Muhlstein is the author of biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, and Cavelier de La Salle; studies on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; Balzac’s Omelette (Other Press, 2011), Monsieur Proust’s Library (Other Press, 2015), and The Pen and the Brush (Other Press, 2017). She won the Goncourt Prize for her biography of Astolphe de Custine, and has received two prizes from the Académie française. She and her husband, Louis Begley, are the authors of Venice for Lovers. They live in New York City.
Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean’s The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris and Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly and Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.
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Biographies.
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