The impressionist print
By: Michel Melot ; translated from the French by Caroline Beamish.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Prints, French -- 19th century; Impressionism (Art) -- France; Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
Description: A print can sometimes tell us more than a painting about the history of art. Michel Melot illustrates his thesis in this book, analysing relationships between artists, the art market, the critics, collectors and political institutions. This fresh approach reveals Impressionism not as a sort of miracle, but as a response to economic and social upheaval.

This original view of a key movement in the history of art allows the reader to understand its decisive effect on all the subsequent generations who have contributed to maintaining the tradition of the belle epreuve.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-292) and index.