French Impressionism - Modern Art And Modern Manners 1860-74
Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance.  Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about artists, their friends, their society and their work.Now your chair at home can become the seat you couldn’t buy in New York.  These DVD’s are the actual performances filmed as they were given "Live At The Met."As co-founder of L’Oeil, the influential vanguard art magazine published in Paris, Bernier became friendly with Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Léger, Braque, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Duchamp and many other modern masters. These lectures have a depth that only a firsthand acquaintance would allow.MODERN ART AND MODERN MANNERSIt was the aim of the Impressionists to show modern life and manners as they actually were.  A major novelist, Emile Zola, and a great poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, rallied there cause, using the dance halls, the restaurants by the water and the domesticities of their own circle.