Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception

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Belinda Thomson illuminates Impressionist art through the thinking and personal lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors that allowed Impressionism to develop when it did.

In her discussion of the style and subject matter of the paintings themselves, she draws on a wide range of sources and comparative material. She investigates the family background of the Impressionists, the importance of the art market and collecting, and the influence of the critical reception to their exhibitions.

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'Full of new insights and informed by recent developments in the social history of art, it is also, to its credit, written in an eloquent and eminently readable style ' - Linda Nochlin

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Belinda Thomson studied at the University of East Anglia and at the Sorbonne, before taking her MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute. She has published books on Gauguin, Vuillard, Post-Impressionism and Impressionism.